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I blame cell phones and texting. It's absolutely appalling how bad it is nowadays. I have a friend who does HR for Target Corp. and he sent me a couple resumes that had been submitted (yes, that's not kosher, but shhhh) and you would be shocked at how bad some of them were. Apparently kids aren't even taught cursive anymore?! Insane.
Agreed!! And NO they're not!!! I have a 7 year old and apparently found out that cursive is no longer on the curriculum anymore!!! Isn't that the point of a "signature"?!
Really though. We took a pre-ACT thing that's supposed to predict your ACT score (PLAN test) and when we got our scores back everyone was like "OMG I DID SO BAD ON GRAMMAR" and they even gave us the tests back and it was literally like "which sentence is a fragment" "where does a comma go"... I got 100% on that part but most of the people I know got like 75 or less. I can't even believe how awful these people are at grammar!
Yeah, I mean, I used to read a LOT (not so much now b/c I'm so busy) and I read a lot in the summer, and even if I'm peer editing and don't know why you need to fix something (like a formal rule) I can tell when you need a comma or a semicolon or to reword it. I can tell when something is awkward/wrong because I read, but some kids write these awful run-on sentences that don't make sense and it's just painful. I'm terrible at writing but if the content isn't perfect, at least my papers have proper grammar.I really think it's connected to how much reading people do. I couldn't tell you how to diagram a sentence, but because I've been reading like crazy since I was a little kid, I know how words are supposed to go together and where punctuation fits. My brothers don't read as much as I do, but they definitely read more than most other people we know, and they don't struggle nearly as much with grammar as other students in their classes. I know when I have to do peer review (even now, in upper-division literature classes), I'm amazed at how bad a lot of the writing is. And don't even get me started on my creative writing class a few semesters ago.
Our schools tried this alternate way of teaching the kids how to print in kindergarten (I think it only lasted through my middle child) so that they formed their letters with tails and connectors with the thought it would be easier for them to transition to cursive in the later grades. Good in theory, terrible in practice because it frustrated all the kids who came in from preschool already writing and made them hate penmanship, plus none of the parents knew the letter formations. They have since completely abandoned this route.
In all fairness of the kids, I think about when I need to use cursive my everyday life and work - and it is truly only when I need to sign my name. And I have to sign so many things somedays that my signature has deteriorated into a collection of lines and swirls that barely resembles more than 1-2 true letters. So perhaps teach them that - let them practice their name, then hand them a laptop and teach them how to use SPELLCHECK religiously. Spend a few more years on grammar as well, and refuse to hand out HS diplomas until they can prove they have mastered the difference between your/you're, there/their/they're and too/to/two.
This.. lolI blame MTV for the decline in social behavior :mad:
Remember when they kept saying Bart Simpson was a horrible influence? Idk, it has all seemed down hill from there...I'm 38 and after reading your post I'm hearing my parents say this in my head! They didn't like "you can't do that on television" on nickelodeon either ;)
I wasn't allowed to watch rugrats when I was little either. I never really had any interest in it anyway though...Remember when they kept saying Bart Simpson was a horrible influence? Idk, it has all seemed down hill from there...
I even have a sister in law who wouldn't let her daughter watch the Rugrats because she thought Angelica was too rude. Who knows? Maybe we should restart the anti-Simpson's campaign?;)
One of my friends wasn't allowed to watch rugrats for the same reason! She'll be 18 in May and STILL isn't allowed to watch it....Remember when they kept saying Bart Simpson was a horrible influence? Idk, it has all seemed down hill from there...
I even have a sister in law who wouldn't let her daughter watch the Rugrats because she thought Angelica was too rude. Who knows? Maybe we should restart the anti-Simpson's campaign?;)
One of my friends wasn't allowed to watch rugrats for the same reason! She'll be 18 in May and STILL isn't allowed to watch it....