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Monday Jun 20 2005

When looking through the comments on this posting I really wonder whether they actually still teach children how to read English in the USA. It boggles the mind...

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At 20 June '05 - 11:15 Cissi wrote:
Oh dear…someone obviously couldn’t read and couldn’t spell either!

I agree, the mind does boggle about the level of education in America, or the lack thereof. Perhaps illiteracy is the new literacy!
At 20 June '05 - 15:25 stefan wrote:
oh! are you giving away free PSP’s? cool! I want one!

;)
At 21 June '05 - 15:44 Cliff Ophalvens wrote:
I agree about it, but here in Belgium the level of education is still to high (is this in Holland too?), I think it’s also wrong, we learn very much but I think some practice can’t harm for further living… But I can live with it, so I do learn all that stuff
At 23 June '05 - 05:49 Ryan Brooks wrote:
PAH! I’m canadian, our english is superior to the yanks. ;)
At 25 June '05 - 02:45 Geoffrey wrote:
The problem here, in my estimation, is not the teaching, at least not what is done in schools, but the parental support, or lack thereof. As an American, I find the intellect and overall responsibility-taking of those who are now going through school rather atrocious. It frightens me that these kids will be the one growing up to design the bridges that I’ll have to drive or be driven over. I think it best to stay at home, then. Or these are the kids who will grow up to dole my medication, should I need any.

It’s more than boggling, it’s frightening!
At 07 July '05 - 02:30 Max wrote:
Not just frightening, but a global trend as well. It’s increasingly hard to find some youth that can actually write proper Dutch.
It’s really, reallly sad.

And it doesn’t seem to be limited to language, either. I think we’re looking at some sort of global stupification, with people turning into blabbering, comic sans-using idiots left and right.

(Wouldn’t spit on a PSP, though)
At 19 July '05 - 00:23 Geoffrey wrote:
Heh, Max, I’ll to agree with you on the “stupification.” Not that I know of any concrete evidence to support such happening, but there enough going on that it wouldn’t surprise me if we entered into something of another Dark Ages.

But the PSP? They’re nice little machines…
At 19 July '05 - 00:26 Geoffrey wrote:
Okay, both my replies were grammatically correct when I entered them…at least, in my mind they were.

Why do I always find my mistakes after I post?

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