Time To Get Serious About Language Learning?

[Unkotare]

....We also need to stop accommodating individuals who don’t speak/read/write a English [sic]. ...

We seem to have accommodated you.

 

[Unkotare]

If being a spelling nazi is the best argument you have then I win hands down

You don't appreciate the irony?

 

[Mac-7]

You don't appreciate the irony?

I learned long ago that I should pay more attention to proof reading my posts

In this case it allows you to duck the issue of incompetent public schools getting more money to waste

 

[Unkotare]

I learned long ago that I should pay more attention to proof reading my posts

In this case it allows you to duck the issue of incompetent public schools getting more money to waste

Because people like you aren't going to learn anyway?

 

[Anathema]

Well, we're not going to.

No child of mine would ever take a foreign language. I was forced to take 3 years of it. I wouldn’t force any child of mine to undertake that same punishment.

 

[Mac-7]

Because people like you aren't going to learn anyway?

I never stop learning

But subjects that interest the lib public educators such as making sure perverts get respect do not interest me

 

[Unkotare]

I never stop learning

But subjects that interest the lib public educators such as making sure perverts get respect do not interest me

What does that have to do with grammar?

 

[Mac-7]

What does that have to do with grammar?

No more or less than a single typo settles an argument about the overall poor quality of public education in America

Its your fig leaf

 

[Unkotare]

No more or less than a single typo settles an argument about the overall poor quality of public education in America

Its your fig leaf

That was not a "typo," it was a grammatical error.

 

[westwall]

Because people like you aren't going to learn anyway?

saying.....


Home schooled children outperform public schooled children by large margins in general.

How do you explain that?

 

[Mac-7]

That was not a "typo," it was a grammatical error.

It was a typo

 

[Unkotare]

saying.....


Home schooled children outperform public schooled children by large margins in general.

How do you explain that?

Self selection as opposed to universal education.

 

[Unkotare]

It was a typo

Just a coincidence that your "typo" altered the verb's morphology in such a specific way?

 

[westwall]

Self selection as opposed to universal education.

Self selection because public schools are FAILING.

 

[Unkotare]

Self selection because public schools are FAILING.

Not all of them.

Massachusetts has the best public schools in the country, ranking shows

Yet another report finds that Massachusetts has the best schools in the country.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[westwall]

Not all of them.

Massachusetts has the best public schools in the country, ranking shows

Yet another report finds that Massachusetts has the best schools in the country.

www.cbsnews.com

One out of 50 isn't anything to be proud of. And those that are supposedly doing good are sending "graduates" out that have significantly less knowledge than the graduates of 50 years ago.

The level of education in the USA is pathetic.

 

[Unkotare]

.... "graduates" out that have significantly less knowledge than the graduates of 50 years ago.
.....

How were the computer skills of graduates 50 years ago?

 

[westwall]

How were the computer skills of graduates 50 years ago?

A lot better than you seem to think. I am talking actual coding, not just the using of computers. But the world doesn't revolve around coding, does it. Todays modern students don't know what continent they are on, how to do math, how to read English, simple chemistry, etc.

But they are absolutely positive that there are more than two sexes.

 

[Unkotare]

A lot better than you seem to think. I am talking actual coding, not just the using of computers. ...

The average high school kid in 1972? I don't think so.

 

[Unkotare]

...Todays modern students don't know what continent they are on, how to do math, how to read English, simple chemistry, etc.
...

That is incorrect.