[Sacajaweau]

Guess what....Teachers don't correct spelling or grammar anymore. It takes away from the creative talents of the child. My poor granddaughter. We had to teach her what the teachers wouldn't....how to write rather than print...how to spell...and how to do times tables.

It's called learning discipline....over and over....no spell check...no calculator.

[a fool in paradise]

We had to teach her what the teachers wouldn't....how to write rather than print...how to spell...and how to do times tables.

"That's retarded, sir."
"I don't read cursive."

[ImNotLying]

Has anyone read some of the news articles written by journalism majors from some of the top universities in the U.S. They are atrocious.

[Tennessee Nana]

Im 65 and was privileged to have a British-type education in New Zealand..some of my teachers in high school were actually from England..

I started school at 5 and started right in with real subjects..

In primary school (elementary) we were expected to learn how to spell read and write our own compositions..

we learnt “mental arithmetic” which involved doing sums in our head and not on paper..the teacher would quiz us orally and we had to write down the answers and had no time to count on our fingers toes or work out anything on paper ...you either knew what 2X2 was or you didn’t and on to the next one..for us it was fun...isn’t school fun anymore...

isn’t challenge stimulating for children anymore ??? why not ???

Tests in English, history etc were only essay questions and we had to write the answer with no clue given ..we either knew the answer or we didn’t..an American college was easy for me after my formal schooling...

points were taken off for bad spelling and bad penmanship ...ALWAYS

For Geography we either had the bare outline of a country and had to fill in the mountains rivers cities or we had to draw our own from memory...how many FReepers can draw the Great Lakes from scratch and name them plus the St Lawrence Seaway without looking ??? I still can...

BTW any spelling mistake by one child was added to our weekly spelling test which often was 50+ words long..

I can remember we once had Mesopotamia for weeks because someone would get it wrong on the spelling test...in spite of the rest of us constantly tutoring our school mates ...LOL (Did I say we were only 9, 10 when we learnt about Mesopotamia ???)

There were always cheers when some gradually hated word FINALLY disappeared from the list..

But that’s back in the olde days when teachers actually TAUGHT...

and 99% of children actually learnt..

[informavoracious]

A lot of teachers can't correct spelling and grammar anymore. They never learned it! (It's too hard.)

When I was in school, it was not just the English teacher with the red pencil. Your spelling and grammar would be corrected in Math, Science, and History classes too.