[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I just started reading this article and I have to say that it's hard to read an article about the poor state of education in this country when the article is filled with grammatical errors. "Those that have implemented ..." should be "Those WHO have implemented...." and what in the world is a "mother lode"?

Don't get me wrong. I have homeschooled for the past eleven years, so I am well aware of what is wrong with public education. But, it does make me cringe when I see a "professional" article about education that is poorly written.

Well, I just had to say that. I'll go read the rest of the article now. LOL

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I think I need to slap myself here. Apparently I'm wrong about "lode" being misspelled. So sorry...and humbled....

[MI_too]

Ah, yes. Well, very likely the writer you complain about is the product of the same educational system about which so many of us have concerns. Then again, that writer may have had a reasonably good education, but still have some difficulty recalling each and every time he writes that participles should be left dangling, nor auxiliary verbs separated from the verbs they modify -- or, so says my English major spouse as he cheerfully red pencils my writing for me. (One of us has a Ph.D. -- care to guess which one?)