"How about English? Did your students "past" that? :o)
The spelling police strikes again."
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I think it was done by one of FR's drive-by commedians.
you answered: The spelling police strikes again.
Spelling or grammar?
The thing is, when teachers are posting with continued misspellings and grammatical errors and erroneous mathematical postulations - (and the misspellings could be easily caught with the handy-dandy spell check) shouldn't they be held to at least an equal standard?
I would, for example, expect to get a higher level of service for, say, a new deck built by a contractor than a handy man.
The troubling thing is the level of expertise of many teachers today as compared with a few decades ago.
For example: Teachers were finally tested, a few years ago, here in N.E., for competency in their fields. The vast majority flunked miserably. They were given a second chance a few months later. The now knew what the tests consisted of.
They had not improved.
I am also impressed, or maybe unimpressed would be more accurate, with handwritten notes from teachers and even principals that is about the level of what a 4th grader used to be. (I'm not referring to handwriting that looks rushed or 'like a doctor's' - but it looks like a 4th grader!)