Somewhat Sad
Today in class I was confronted by the fact that the people coming out of the American government schools are as a group abysmally educated in their own language.
Several people presenting today were struggling with reading their prewritten statements. These are college students! How pathetic does it get? I'm not even getting into their pronunciation. I mean, come on people, "constituent" is not that difficult.
Anyways, before I get lambasted for being a hypocrite, I'd like to make the distinction that the frequent errors in my posts and comments are due not to ignorance but rather to haste and carelessness.
Additionally, I am only placing partial blame on my fellow students for the abysmal language skills, they have been cruelly neglected by the beuracracy that was created to "educate" them and their parents obviously did not care enough to take responsibility for the learning when they were children.
Several people presenting today were struggling with reading their prewritten statements. These are college students! How pathetic does it get? I'm not even getting into their pronunciation. I mean, come on people, "constituent" is not that difficult.
Anyways, before I get lambasted for being a hypocrite, I'd like to make the distinction that the frequent errors in my posts and comments are due not to ignorance but rather to haste and carelessness.
Additionally, I am only placing partial blame on my fellow students for the abysmal language skills, they have been cruelly neglected by the beuracracy that was created to "educate" them and their parents obviously did not care enough to take responsibility for the learning when they were children.
7 Comments:
This is something that has always bothered me. Maybe it's the whole homeschool thing, but when I got to high school I was stunned at the levels my classmates had failed to achieve as far as English proficiency.
Whenever we had to read aloud, it was almost painful listening to them struggle over simple words and sentences.
I was reading a friend's essay at Armstrong Atlantic University in Georgia and I couldn't believe it. She had not one coherent or well-formed sentence in it, yet the paper was covered "good job" and kudos from the teacher.
I feel your pain.
My so-called "peers" command, or lack thereof, of the English language is both sad and regrettable.
The public education system, it still brings back many painful memories that I haven't repressed yet. When I transfered schools for the 4th time, I was in 5th grade and now going to a private school. I learned really quickly that I far surpassed my classmates in math and science, but I was stuck with a 1st grade level of spelling and grammer. It took me a little over a year to catch up to the rest of my classmates in that area.
Personally my experence with privit schools was aweful so I really can't say that they are any better than public schools. It may have been the school though. In second grade my teacher was pushing us on to division when I had yet to master the basics like some of the harder addition and subtraction, and multiplication. I'm very good at math now and I'm sure that I could have done divition if I had first mastered the other skills. And while I don't remember this, I was behide in my reading skills. I don't ever remember be bad at reading but apperently I was. And in first grade at the same school I hade a hell of a time trying to get an grade appropriate phonics book.
I can sympathize with you in the other people being praised for aweful work. There is one girl who is just so stupid and should be failing in french. But for some reason she is still puttering along. And last semester I took consumer math and that was just the easiest and most mind numbing class I have ever taken. But the teacher continued to try and simplify it was those who were still to stupid to get it. I don't know about you, but posters and formulas on note cards just don't help me. They just irritate me.
I agree, public schools are not that great, look at me i've been going to public school since kindergarden, and i'm smart but i could have been pushed alot harder, i dident know my multipication tables untill 8th or 9th grade because no one made me learn them so i didn't (i only knew the easy ones) and now i'm horrible at math. Also i'm a really bad speller, but i think thats mainly just me.
Also one more thing i forgot to add, i have only had 2 1/2 (the 1/2 is because she only taut for half the year because she's on meturnity leave) good language arts teachers were i have learned somthing and stuff, and this is outta 8 years...i mean come on...
It is sad that so many parents do not care enough about their children's education or overall well-being enough to teach their children themselves. They trust total strangers to care more for their children than themselves, and they expect their children to share the values they hold?! Parents need to be more commited to taking a proactive approach to raising their children. Government schools just herd the kids into age-segregated groups and mass indoctrinate in evolution and humanism as well as alot of other inherently highly religious things, even not allowing prayer in schools teaches a religion. It is just is not the true religion. Silence speaks volumes and silence on the issue of God in schools speaks volumes about the nation's climate. And yes, while I was attending community college, I encountered plenty of peers who could not pronounce average vocab words....thats sad! Things need to change.
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