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Originally posted by HardDrive
What the hell are they teaching these youngins?
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Beats the heck out of me, man. I spent some time tutoring at a middle school last year. Mostly I helped with Math and Physics, but occasionally kids would ask me to proofread their writing. I thought my sailors had awful writing skills! These kids put my sailors to shame -- minimal punctuation or capitalization, sentence structure so wildly off-the-wall that it didn't make any sense, sentence length varying from "run on" to "incomplete ..." There were many papers that would have been better off with a Random Word Generator!
What's worse, I'd start in on correcting these poor misguided youth, and they'd stop me: "Oh, it really isn't worth that much thought -- the teacher doesn't read them anyway."
Then they'd show me old papers they had written that were just as bad with neat little grades at the top -- B+, A-, whatever.
What a nightmare. Is this beyond fixing?