English fail at my wife's school

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Daedalus685

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Even being dyslexic it is mind boggling. They must have done the mistakes on purpose right? I mean it isn't even close to phonetic.. and a type-oh seems difficult with pen and paper..
 

purbeast0

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they were probably just fucking with your wife because she assigned a stupid ass assignment to her sophomore students of 'write 5 sentences'
 

pontifex

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Ah lol well mosquitoes is excusable, since it's spelled stupidly...

The rest is lol though. But really, how can you expect someone to know how to spell when nearly every single word processing program has a spell check.

No one reads any more either. I'm an avid reader and I've learned new words (how to spell them and their definitions) just by reading.
 

KK

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My wife had a parent email her within the past week or so. She fowarded it to me, I'll post it tomorrow once I get to my work email. I wouldn't even label it ebonics it was 20 times worse.
 

dainthomas

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At my wife's school they have a short assignment to do at the start of class called bellwork. Recently wife (Math Teacher) had them write 5 sentences. (Once a week every teacher must include some writing bell-work to try and improve their spelling/grammar.) Here are some of the responses:

-We didnt have know bellwork monday
-We didnt do work witch isn good
-I don know what she was tryna do
-I hate garbein noms (garden gnomes)
-(Two years ago) I was sad because my gammy pasted away. I went to the funarl and my cuzin was thier
-I hate maskitoes (Mosquitoes)
-I like Ohio Better Because Ceder Point their and i leik going thier

These are direct quotes from sophomores in High School and for just this one assignment

"There" spelled two different ways, and both wrong, in the same SENTENCE. Epic!

At least I think it's wrong since I can't really tell what they're saying.
 

BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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That's all we get from the Grammar Nazi?

At the minimum I was expecting a nuke it from orbit.

meh...it was posted to show the fail...no sense going on a rant about piss-poor grammar in such a thread...although when those same "morans" post here, you know I'm on them like ugly on an ape...:p
 

FallenHero

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My wife had a parent email her within the past week or so. She fowarded it to me, I'll post it tomorrow once I get to my work email. I wouldn't even label it ebonics it was 20 times worse.

You have perked my interest. I shall return tomorrow and I expect an update sir!
 

Svnla

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Nov 10, 2003
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Very soon, these kids will have to compete with other kids around the world.

Ahh, the future of America.
 

KK

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You have perked my interest. I shall return tomorrow and I expect an update sir!

I forwarded it from the wifes phone to my home account. Here it is.


"A***l was tardy week she was sick bronchitis doctor said keep her out but I work with her so she could come on to school and today I had to take b***n to empty and no one at first to plck her up this is shy I miss math hour and what about science project. I also hear angel having some problem I wish you would letter me know "

the empty reference above is supposed to be Emory. The rest, well, y'all figure it out.
 

Numenorean

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I forwarded it from the wifes phone to my home account. Here it is.


"A***l was tardy week she was sick bronchitis doctor said keep her out but I work with her so she could come on to school and today I had to take b***n to empty and no one at first to plck her up this is shy I miss math hour and what about science project. I also hear angel having some problem I wish you would letter me know "

the empty reference above is supposed to be Emory. The rest, well, y'all figure it out.

How do you even answer that? I have no idea what she is wanting to know.

I would honestly tell her to ask a question in English.

How do these people find jobs?
 

punjabiplaya

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Nov 12, 2006
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"I'm sorry, I don't understand. Could you please rephrase the question in coherent English? Thank you."
 

Binarycow

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In my college-level courses, I'm always apprehensive about giving my students any homework assignment that they have to answer in essay form. Half of these 1st and 2nd year college kids can't write a coherent paragraph if their lives depend on it. Some would write a paragraph like how they would talk about it :( Most of them have so much problem with expressing their thoughts in a concise and cohesive manner.
 

punjabiplaya

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In my college-level courses, I'm always apprehensive about giving my students any homework assignment that they have to answer in essay form. Half of these 1st and 2nd year college kids can't write a coherent paragraph if their lives depend on it. Some would write a paragraph like how they would talk about it :( Most of them have so much problem with expressing their thoughts in a concise and cohesive manner.

they have thoughts?
 

Numenorean

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In my college-level courses, I'm always apprehensive about giving my students any homework assignment that they have to answer in essay form. Half of these 1st and 2nd year college kids can't write a coherent paragraph if their lives depend on it. Some would write a paragraph like how they would talk about it :( Most of them have so much problem with expressing their thoughts in a concise and cohesive manner.

I wouldn't be. If they can't do it, they get it wrong and fail. They don't deserve to graduate from college if they can't do that.
 

ShawnD1

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"A***l was tardy week she was sick bronchitis doctor said keep her out but I work with her so she could come on to school and today I had to take b***n to empty and no one at first to plck her up this is shy I miss math hour and what about science project. I also hear angel having some problem I wish you would letter me know "

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In my college-level courses, I'm always apprehensive about giving my students any homework assignment that they have to answer in essay form. Half of these 1st and 2nd year college kids can't write a coherent paragraph if their lives depend on it. Some would write a paragraph like how they would talk about it :( Most of them have so much problem with expressing their thoughts in a concise and cohesive manner.
I write exactly the way I would talk...
 
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FallenHero

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I forwarded it from the wifes phone to my home account. Here it is.


"A***l was tardy week she was sick bronchitis doctor said keep her out but I work with her so she could come on to school and today I had to take b***n to empty and no one at first to plck her up this is shy I miss math hour and what about science project. I also hear angel having some problem I wish you would letter me know "

the empty reference above is supposed to be Emory. The rest, well, y'all figure it out.

I'm sorry. You killed part of my brain.