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A lot of kids don't bother learning proper spelling and grammer because if they do write, they automatically get corrections from word processing programs.
I have always had teachers who insisted on correct grammar and spelling. Also after summer vacation when you went to the next grade the teacher used to ask us what we did on our summer vacations and some said something like I and my friends, or I an my brother etc, the teacher corrected the student and said never say I first, the correct grammar is my friends and I, or my brother and I etc
Very true.
My 14 year old niece does her state capital homework using Google.
The other day, I talked her into taking Spanish as an elective. Well, she’s so smart, she went on Google translator and asked me for different words.
“Cat”, I’d yell from the other room. She’d come back with-”cat!” “Mother”-she’d come back with mother etc.
After about ten words, I stroll into my office, and discovered she was clicking on the wrong ‘Listen’ button.
How could she think that all 10 words would be said the same way albeit a little strange due to lady computer voice-but really-talk about no common sense and lack of skills!
“Just Google it” is all she knows! And the teachers encourage it she tells me. The classes she can’t really Google/fake, she’s got 70’s in-it’s so frustrating to watch her fail in slow motion...
When we had a local near-revolution concerning the too-easy exams for teachers, one local teacher attempted to uphold the difficulty of the exams by writing to the newspaper that “I and my collegues...”