"Tom Del Rosso" > wrote in
:

> "PeterL" > wrote in message
>
>>
>> You'd be suprised at the number of people that spell it wrong......
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yuxzvw
>
> At least the correct spelling has 1680 times as many hits as that
> misspelling.
>
>
>> But apart from that.......... he's a frikken 24yo University
>> student!! You *really* didn't think that he'd be able to spell, did
>> you???!!!
>
> If he was in the US I wouldn't, but I don't know the extent of
> academic decrepitude in the rest of Western Civilization.


When my two sons were going to Primary & High School, I used to have a
running battle with them, and their teachers, over the distinct lack of
correct spelling...... and the method that the Education Dept was using
to teach the kids words.

Their system was "If the word *sounds* like the word they want, it
doesn't matter how it's spelt"!!!

One teacher sent me a 1 page letter in reply to a letter of complaint I
wrote. I corrected all 17 spelling and punctuation errors in red pen,
sent it back with a note to tell her to do it again, *correctly*, and
then re-submit it.

I also sent copies of all the letters to the Education Dept.

Nothing has changed :-/


>> Christ!! Most of the bloody teachers teaching the children in Primary
>> and High schools can't even spell!!
>
> I was doing IT work in a New York primary school a few weeks ago.
> There was a poster that said, among other things, "I will play safe"
> and, "I will think positive", so I pulled out my marker and added the
> "ly"s.


Looks like it's the same all over the world :-(





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