“..Slipping skills due to email, twitter, etc.”
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing is more important than teaching grammar.
No one seems to remember the difference.
I doubt that many English teachers know.
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing is more important than teaching grammar.
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Bingo!
In the fall, one of my sons called me regarding a grade received by his stepson in the child’s seventh-grade “language arts” class. My son, who was appalled that the kid had received an “A” on a composition filled with spelling and grammar errors, had been told by the teacher that the creativity that the boy had displayed in the piece was worthy of the grade.