Do they not teach spelling and grammar in school any more?

Question

A lot of the times I have no idea what people are asking because of all the errors in their questions.

Answer 1

No. It might affect a child's creativity if we actually expect them to spell and use correct grammer!!

I am a math teacher and this line of thinking is from the same people who say we should not have to teach basics such as mult. tables if we will teach problem solving skills. Just hand them a calculator when they start school and turn them loose.

Obviously, I don't agree!!

Answer 2

I just graduated from 8th grade back in late May and, well, I can honestly say I got very little spelling, grammar, or even vocabulary in middle school; I learned very few grammar terms, no spelling after elementary school, and no vocabulary after 6th grade (first year of middle school for us). All the teachers were interested in was having us write a lot of papers and do a lot of reading practices for our state's Standardized Test (capitalized 'cause it's such a huge deal over here). I was in Pre-AP/Honors classes too. They seem to have upped the curriculum at my old middle school, however, since my sister was able to help me with my summer homework for English I! She's going into 7th grade, for reference. The point is, some current or in-going high school students might be having problems with proper English because for a while, it was mostly abandoned.

Answer 3

Well, when my niece shows me what she does at school, I am unsure as to the future of the world. Obviously, I'm exaggerating, but I really do get the feeling that younger generations have absoloutely no idea as to how to write/spell/read/talk. It's distressing.

The last post talks of teaching. Don't I know. I once did a course (phsycology) for a high school, and the school asked me why I had been so strict with the principles. No one gives about anything but creativity these days...

Answer 4

This has been a long-standing issue/debate on this site. I have offered up many suggestions to Yahoo! Answers to help segregate (and I use the term loosely) the site into age groups to help foster a more intellectually stimulating environment for those wanting to ask and answer serious questions sans the grammatical mishaps. It is very frustrating to try to seek answers when people are using abbreviations, using words and phrases out of context, and misspelling words.

To add to what some answerer's are saying...I don't believe you are suggesting that everyone use strict grammar rules. I think you are just wanting them to try to ask and answer questions a little more clearly. Nonetheless, it is still frustrating when you cannot decipher what someone is trying to say.

Answer 5

Of course they do. But it's much cooler to spell words with numbers that look like letters or completely incorrectly. Oh and it's also way uncool to go to school anymore, or to pay attention in English class. AT least that's what it seems like to me.

Answer 6

Even I, the OCD Queen, make errors. I overlook, do my best to understand, but never, ever judge that person.

Answer 7

No, they teache us butt we dont's want to lissen. Plus, I think the older peeps just dont's understand what the yunger peeps are trien to say. My uncle says he has a hard time lissening to me and my cussins butt we now what we r sayin So there is no problems, u now?

Answer 8

Let he who is innocent cast the first stone.

Answer 9

Let he/she who is concerned cast the first stone.

Answer 10

Yeah, we still teach it... although you can't tell by some of these posts.