Posted on 02/27/2020 3:39:07 AM PST by Rummyfan
I came across the NY Times article, “Why Kids Can’t Write,” and I couldn’t help it. I had to click on it. Silly me, I got sucked into it, and wasted an afternoon and most of my patience on it.
So complicated, she gets fisked. As usual, the original is in italics, and my commentary in bold.
On a bright July morning in a windowless conference room in a Manhattan bookstore, several dozen elementary school teachers were learning how to create worksheets that would help children learn to write
(Excerpt) Read more at littlesquirrelbooks.wordpress.com ...
Unbelievable how much we spend on education and no one gets educated. Not even in the basics of reading and writing never mind arithmetic.
because it is not about education or knowledge gain
Always, it has been about indoctrination.
Public schools are indoctrination and holding pens.
Any education that may occur is incidental.
....And 40 percent of those who took the ACT writing exam in the high school class of 2016 lacked the reading and writing skills necessary to complete successfully a college-level English composition class, according to the company’s data.
Why is that? Not entirely sure (as no one will admit it), but my hunch is the instructor is afraid to fail them if they are a certain ethnicity.
A couple years ago I talked to a university professor and she said most kids cannot write a complete sentence. They are given assignment in class using their notebooks (or whatever those little laptops are called), and when she goes behind them most are doing something totally unrelated to the assignment.
Driving on campus is a nightmare for the students just come out of nowhere to cross a street, not looking for traffic, heads just bowed towards their phones texting away. Just mindlessly walking around like zombies.
Could be our children's future...
That's a classic? The statement is more of a 'how to condition yourself for control by the Democratic Party government' the U.S. is heading for...
The root of the problem, educators agree, is that teachers have little training in how to teach writing and are often weak or unconfident writers themselves.
What are they learning and/or being taught in Educator college?
I am old so I had a good education. But when I started freelancing for newspapers and magazines after college. I picked up a copy of the AP stylebook for the time which for anyone wishing to brush up on basic usage is a very concise package of grammar and usage. It has been updated and is available on Amazon and there is even a 6 page wall chart which is probably what the old booklet I had was many years ago. But the best way for kids to learn to write is for them to read - - a lot.
Dumb people are easier to control.
Today, so many words are triggers that it’s becoming more difficult to communicate.
I learned a lot about writing when I’d penned two books of about 800 pages, total.
That was 25 years ago, and today we have programs like “Grammarly”.
Thanks for posting that! Loved the blog site and will bookmark it.
I guess I am old-fashioned. I was taught that beginning a sentence with conjunctions like “and”, “or”, and “but” were improper. However, it seems to be all the rage these days, even in this piece.
***And this is modern American writing class? First graders can do this. Or at least they used to be able to.***
I would’ve written the above like this:
***This is modern American writing class? First graders can do this, or at least they used to be able to.***
I suppose it is some sort of stylistic intent.
The forty-seven genders and how not to offend anyone.
Plus, the schools of education usually don’t attract the sharpest knives in the drawer.
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