With the time the free up from not giving spelling tests, they can spend more time for testing ideological purity.
Posted on 04/03/2012 10:04:18 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
The University’s journalism school has officially recognized the power of a spell check.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s spelling and grammar test, a requirement for all students in the school, will no longer include a spelling portion as administrators attempt to adapt to the changing industry.
The school will alter the test in the fall for the first time since the test’s creation in the 1970s
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytarheel.com ...
With the time the free up from not giving spelling tests, they can spend more time for testing ideological purity.
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No tes’ is a good fing, ‘coz if ya jes’ sits down to ya ‘puter and looks at soma them blogs about what ya wanna rite about, tha’s alls what ya need ta do. Gitcher infermachon fum blogs. Yeah.
A long time ago on a continent far, far away, we took a language acquisition course. Our teacher had the class read the following. We did so haltingly. Then he read it to us. After you finish reading, go to the link for an audio reading.
BTW, this passes my Spell Checker.
Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter murder inner ladle cordage, honor itch offer lodge dock florist. Disk ladle gull orphan worry ladle cluck wetter putty ladle rat hut, an fur disk raisin pimple colder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.
Wan moaning, Rat Rotten Hut’s murder colder inset, “Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, heresy ladle basking winsome burden barter an shirker cockles. Tick disk ladle basking tutor cordage offer groin-murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist. Shaker lake! Dun stopper laundry wrote! An yonder nor sorghum-stenches, dun stopper torque wet strainers!”
“Hoe-cake, murder,” resplendent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, an tickle ladle basking an stuttered oft. Honor wrote tutor cordage offer groin-murder, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut mitten anomalous woof. “Wail, wail, wail!” set disk wicket woof, “Evanescent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut! Wares are putty ladle gull goring wizard ladle basking?”
“Armor goring tumor groin-murder’s,” reprisal ladle gull. “Grammar’s seeking bet. Armor ticking arson burden barter an shirker cockles.”
“O hoe! Heifer blessing woke,” setter wicket woof, butter taught tomb shelf, “Oil tickle shirt court tutor cordage offer groin-murder. Oil ketchup wetter letter, an den - O bore!”
Soda wicket woof tucker shirt court, an whinney retched a cordage offer groin-murder, picked inner widow, an sore debtor pore oil worming worse lion inner bet. Inner flesh, disk abdominal woof lipped honor bet an at a rope. Den knee poled honor groin-murder’s nut cup an gnat-gun, any curdled dope inner bet.
Inner ladle wile, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut a raft attar cordage, an ranker dough belle. “Comb ink, sweat hard,” setter wicket woof, disgracing is verse. Ladle Rat Rotten Hut entity bet rum an stud buyer groin-murder’s bet.
“O Grammar!” crater ladle gull, “Wood bag icer gut! A nervous sausage bag ice!”
“Battered lucky chew whiff, doling,” whiskered disk ratchet woof, wetter wicket small.
“O Grammar, water bag noise! A nervous sore suture anomolous prognosis!”
“Battered small your whiff,” insert a woof, ants mouse worse waddling.
“O Grammar, water bag mousy gut! A nervous sore suture bag mouse!”
Daze worry on-forger-nut gulls lest warts. Oil offer sodden, thoroughing offer carvers an sprinkling otter bet, disk curl and bloat-thursday woof ceased pore Ladle Rat Rotten Hut an garbled erupt.
Mural: Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gulls stopper torque wet strainers.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/
... and "yore."
It's what?
Mrs WBill teaches a class for teachers. One of the things that her students need to do is track their in-class hours. I double check their math for my wife, because a) she hates math and 2) I can add long strings of numbers in my head, quickly. 'Tis one of the bennies of being an engineer.
Anyhoo, I'd guess that 6 out of 10 of her students get the addition wrong. And, we're not talking differential calculus, here, we're talking 1+3+2+1+4+1+1....and so on.
I'd also guess that 1 in 4 can't tell time. They'll count an 8:00 to noon shift as 5 hours. I know how it happens (count on your fingers 8,9,10,11,12) but I never cease to be amazed.
These are the teachers people leave their kids with at day care. It's also why Mrs WBill and I agreed that she'd stay home with the kids and only teach a class or two for fun.
Well, I thought that I had posted enough on this thread until reading your post, just above.
There is an old saying that, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
Those incompetent teachers, of whom you write, have helped produce at least two generations filled with nearly “blind” citizens. And the state and national capitols are full of one-eyed “representatives.”
It’s really one of the things that bothers me about the Obamaculture we are turning into.
If I make a mistake or you make a mistake, it’s a mistake all the same. No big deal. Not the end of the world. We could say “thanks for pointing that out, FRiend!” and move along.
But instead, people get their hackles up, and attack the other. “It’s not my mistake, it’s YOUR PROBLEM for pointing it out?”
Everything’s upside down.
You hit it on the nose.
I’m getting pretty sick of your anti-semantic statements. Watch it, or I’ll report you to the admins, you bigot!
FWIW, the class my wife teaches is at a local Community College. Apparently, it's a well-regarded program, at least locally.
I asked my wife, "Why do you pass teachers who can't add, can't tell time, etc?"
Her response? "I can't fail 75% of my classes. This is a childhood development class, therefore there's no room in the schedule to teach basic math to 20- 30- and 40+ year olds. So, I judge them on more subjective standards, like, are they good with kids, would they make a good hire for a daycare, etc etc etc." She fails a few, and in talking to her, it sounds like the real zeroes pretty much weed themselves out.
I can see the dilemma. When you're presented with students that have "graduated" HS, who have been so utterly failed by the system and can't perform some of the more simple tasks .... what do you do?
I just don't have a frame of reference for it. The washout rate in my engineering degree was something north of 2/3rds. And in my job, there's very little wiggle room for "meh, close enough". Either the system works, or it doesn't. And I don't have someone going behind me to double check and correct my work or say "Well, your mistake cost the company 5 million dollars, but that's OK. You've been on time most days and participated well in all of the meetings."
LOL....guess I have to fire my editor!
Really? I thought that you did that on purpose. Now it's REALLY funny! First time I laughed out loud this day. Dang!
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