“..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.
Don’t you mean “... ARE more important...”
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing is more important than teaching grammar.
The real culprit is the publik skool system where self esteem, political correctness and liberal brainwashing ARE more important than teaching grammar.
According to people I know who are teachers, schools no longer stress grammar and spelling. The kids are “going to do it wrong, anyway,” so the teachers have thrown in the towel. I guess prior generations were capable of learning spelling and grammar, but today’s kids cannot or will not.
Another problem is that often, the teachers themselves are rotten at spelling and grammar.
While public schools are certainly to blame, the fact is that a growing number of adults don’t read...at all. This had been common in some ethnic communities, and has now spread to the white mainstream.