Damnit, my IQ dropped another 50 pts. just reading that. I'm officially an idiot.
When I was a sr in highschool (05-06) I was good friends with one of the english teachers, so I may or may not have had access to other students' work, and it may or may not have been really disappointing. Hard to believe the number of high school students who struggle not only with spelling and simple sentence structure, but also simple computer usage. The majority of the papers didn't have proper headings, page numbers, spacing, formatting, none of it. But they knew they needed to, so they would type in headers and page numbers on the first line and keep going.
Friends liked having me edit their papers as well, man it gets ugly.