After seeing some of the answers here (spelling wise), I can't help but wonder what our future is going to be like. I mean, spell check is in plain sight, yet it seems like no one uses it. Of course, it would be nice if we really didn't need it, but it looks like we do. (I admit that I use it when a word boggles me). Is the no child left behind actually ruining our country? What can we do to fix this huge problem? Thoughts?
2006-12-16 12:31:27 · 7 answers · asked by FireBug 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
To make this situation better, the school system should go back to holding dumb kids back a grade until the kid gets it. The "No Child Left Behind" system encourages mediocrity, rewards stupidity, and punishes excelling students by holding them back with their unintelligent peers. It's a mess, and it won't get any better until we realize that no one should ever be rewarded for a "C" on a report card. We should reward students who are excellent, not students who are merely average.
2006-12-16 12:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by Bastet's kitten 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. It is people being in a hurry. They do not take the time to do spell check, because it really does not matter to them. They are also lazy. And finally I believe they think this computer speak is cool. If it carries over into their employment life I foresee a deepfat fryer or a mop, in their future.
It is amazing the really sharp young people out there. The ones that imitate other and pop stars WILL be left behind to complain and say how picked on they are.
2006-12-16 20:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read some of Johnathan Kozol's early stuff (70s) - we've been working at creating a functionally illiterate society for a long time. Others have left us in the dust in science, math, multilingualism, basic grammar and spelling, writing, geography and more.
2006-12-16 20:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Skeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the bad grammar you see here I suspect is mostly just laziness and not caring. But I hear you. I wonder sometimes when I here that people can graduate from high school now days and still be functionally illiterate.
2006-12-16 20:39:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some will claim Internet-speak, but the truth is that we all know a typo when we see it, an Internet shortcut when we see it, and the ubiquitous illiteracy when we see it.
I fear that for as many literate people raised in this country we are raising just as many illiterates
2006-12-16 20:36:43 · answer #5 · answered by Hank Hill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't just the horrendous spelling but also the lack of punctuation and capitalization that makes many of the questions and answers hard to read or understand. In many cases a long paragraph with no defination of when any sentence begins or ends. I usually don't bother trying to decipher many of them and when voting I definately bypass those.
2006-12-16 20:38:43 · answer #6 · answered by Country girl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Country Girl - I'd check your spelling of 'defination' and 'definately', babe. People in glass houses..........
On yahoo answers, I don't care. This is a leisure activity, not school. I do worry that in real life, people's language skills are deteriorating though.
2006-12-16 20:44:51 · answer #7 · answered by Katya-Zelen 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋