[meyer]

Students routinely fail; some fail multiple times, and some will never pass, because they cannot write a coherent sentence.

Such students should never have been given a high school diploma.

[Zack Nguyen]

Such students should never have been given a high school diploma.

I agree. Having been a substitute teacher in a public high school, I can attest to the fact that a significant number of the students had no business being there. They learned nothing and actively inhibited others from learning.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"Such students should never have been given a high school diploma." Absolutely correct. I supervise three lenders in a commercial bank. I have to review all of their work before it moves forward to loan committee.

I am no scholar, as I will tell anyone.

The agony I go through correcting spelling, grammar and convoluted syntax is like a mental bastinado.

When I get after them and suggest that at least they could use spell check and grammar check on their computers, all I get is a bovine look.

[esquirette]

As an adjunct at my local community college, I second that. Public high schools are passing students who should fail and granting diplomas to kids whose best work is still on an elementary level. Then the junior colleges have to take them, adding to their own curriculum a bevy of remedial classes, for which these students now pay (or receive financial aid), just to get them to a basic level of competence. Home schooled students - and they are admitted as young as 15 - are a standout in every class.

[LauraJean]

Maybe they should be able to write a coherent sentence before they get a PhD.

[LauraJean]

Maybe they should be able to write a coherent sentence before they get a PhD.

[Niuhuru]

But that would hurt their precious self esteem.