Posted on 09/15/2006 9:49:05 AM PDT by JSedreporter
I was a crappy high school student. Had a 3.65 average at graduation from college though.
Simple. Students failing? Lower the standards.
Errors such as those mentioned can be found in any newspaper. Even the professionals make these mistakes, these days. Sometimes I wonder if newspapers even employ editors anymore.
Two possible explanations: grade inflation, or the fact that some august institutions have announced they either don't want or don't take very seriously SAT scores has led students to not take them seriously either.
The first is certainly a bad thing, but there may be two views about the latter, depending on how reliable and useful one believes standardized tests to be.
Unless you happen to be a hugh, series spork weasel.
A=A, unless it's in Cali-forn-ia Public Skoolze, then A=D................
I would have said to the student: "You are EXPECTED to be ACCEPTED, or you'll be EXCEPTED.".............
Academic typso ping! Yew gotta no you're homophones!
If they employed me, they would use homophones correctly!
For all intensive purposes, he's right.
So, if the Dow drops 100 points, that's a "crash."
The uses a RED pen?!?! Doesn't that traumatize his students???
"Academic typso ping! Yew gotta no you're homophones!"
That's the trouble with today's schools. Too darned many homophones pushing their agendas on unsuspecting kids. If we could get the homophones out of schools, things would be a lot better. You won't find any of those filthy homophones in home schools.
it is just not in English that the errors occur. I remeber a newspaper article in early 2002 about a plane taking off from runway 19 at Washington National and flying over the VP's residence after takeoff. (Note: at that time, flights taking off and landing at DCA were required to fly on straight lines and not follow the river as most now do). However, to fly over the VP's residence after taking off from runway 19 would require serious turning because the runway is almost due south (Runway 01 is almost due north)and the runway is south of the residence.
Prole fondness for newspaper words tempts them into some extravagant malapropisms. A writer in the London Sunday Times not long ago testified to hearing that attempts were being made to pervert a strike, and that somewhere a priest had been called in to circumcise a ghost:Readers notify me of the lady with a painful “Ulster” in her mouth; the shrines you can see in Catholic countries in commemoration of “St. Mary Mandolin”; the police at the scene of a crime, who threw “an accordion” round the street; the touching sight of the deceased George V lying in state on a “catapult” . . . the student who was always to be found “embossed” in a book; the pilot who left his aircraft by means of the “ejaculation seat”; . . . the drowning swimmer who was revived by means of “artificial insemination”; and the rainbow which was said by an onlooker to contain “all the colors of the rectum.”— Paul Fussell, Class.
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"A writer in the London Sunday Times not long ago testified to hearing that attempts were being made to pervert a strike,"
That reminds me of a spelling test I took in 4th grade. The teacher wrote misspelled words on the blackboard, then asked students to spell them correctly, aloud.
One of the words was "pervent." I was the kid who had to correct the spelling. So, being the smartass kid I was, I spelled it aloud...P E R V E R T.
The teacher almost fell down laughing. It was several minutes before the class could continue.
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