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Originally Posted by martyh
I agree that discipline at school and in the home has a great deal to do with the problem ,and hopefully ,with schools getting new powers with discipline or at least confirmation of existing powers that will get better .That isn't the only problem though ,we have record numbers of children leaving school with record numbers of qualifications year after year and yet basic skills are still lacking so somewhere there is a problem with the government figures .I also think that a lot of teachers haven't got the dedication they used to have, either because they have had it knocked out of them by the system or simply because they aren't in the profession for the right reasons
@the spelling police ,i was going through my year end accounts when i wrote the above post so   |
And yet you still refer to yourself in the first person with a lower case instead of a capital letter.
Possibly the passion for texting is to blame?I suspect that speed being the main motivator in working these days and technology playing a larger life may be another reason.
I also wonder how many homes possess a dictionary or thesaurus?
And finally we get the education we pay for. If we want our children to really parse their English correctly then we need to train the teachers to do so and lay more emphasis upon it in schools than is done at present.Trying to do this while getting an increasing minority to sit down and STFU while you teach is possibly what is at the basis of what goes wrong.