Surprisingly, even in elementary and middle schools. My daughter just started HS this month, and she has been correcting my writing for years! It's actually amusing, because I've been doing it to her father for years! of course it is not so amusing when she does it to me on FaceBook! Both her friends and mine get a big kick out of it - especially my friends from HS who had the same OCD nun as an English teacher who drilled diagramming into us!
It seems like Townhall.com has no editors. This is the second article from them today that has horrid grammar.
Come on guys, Google apostrophe and see how to use it. Don’t give the other side ammo like this. You’re asking for the messenger defense against your arguments. They’ll say ‘look at their writing, there are several errors per paragraph in that piece; you can’t trust anything they’re saying if they can’t even use fourth grade grammar’.
Diagramming is still great for using I or we. I love Dennis Prager who says it’s one of his passions. Our local weekly newspaper apparently has no editor; the errors in it are astonishing. The previous one passed away about 12 years ago. Nothing got past him. Guess I missed my calling; errors leap out at me from just about every book I read. I think Dick Cheney’s autobio has been the only exception.
My husband’s daugher-in-law went to Catholic school. She said her 3rd grade class had 60 students and that it was a very orderly, mannerly classroom.