amredthelector | less ragey then icon would have you believe, really (Reply)

So I came across this article earlier today. Okay, it has a sensationalist title, but it does have good points. I definitely agree that something is going on with how English is being taught right now in the US (and I guess Canada, too). I was a student aid for a math teacher during a free space in my schedule back in my sophomore year of high school. I graded a lot of papers for the teacher, and I noticed this sort of thing a lot. On tests, when faced with a problem they didn't understand, many kids would write 'IDK' instead of 'I don't know'. Text speak was sprinkled all over papers, and I saw a lot of people replace 'to' and 'too' with '2' and 'for' with '4'. Both of my English teachers had to go over the difference between their/there/they're - in high school.

Now, some of you may know that I'm going to school to be an English teacher at the high school level. Honestly? It was because I noticed this sort of thing that I decided I wanted to teach.