How are kids doing it these days?

[crash2]

How are kids still either graduating or in there high school years with such poor grammer and spelling? I can understand some occasional incorectly spelled words and grammer here and there. But man I can't believe some of the stuff you see on the net these days. I know my grammer isn't the best but alot of mine comes from trying to move too fast.

We have a kid at work who (your going to laugh here) always asks me how to spell a words. He graduated last year and the stuff he asks about is what I consider basic used words too....

 

[PUO-BANNED]

Lemme guess this is from the OHHS thread :haha:

 

[PHILLBILLY1]

If they didn't graduate because of thier spelling or grammar, then the parents would sue......:rolleyes:

 

[Ty.]

i dnt ndrstnd wt u js tpd:eeek:

 

[crash2]

Lemme guess this is from the OHHS thread :haha:

That sparked it. But go over to Pirate or other forums. You see it so often these days.

 

[PUO-BANNED]

Its technology. first it was calculators then spell check now it's the whole texting generation. it's like they are speaking a whole different language.

 

[Jaydog]

In the puyallup school district they go to the next grade by age, and they graduate by grade, I was talking to the high school counselor about it and he said they graduate 4 or 5 every year that are illiterate. Pretty sad, but it isn't PC to flunk anyone now a days, it might hurt their feelers. :rolleyes:

 

[boardbysled]

My spelling sucks, but its a family trait. I have to agree that spell check has made people worse spellers, thats why I don't use it.:flipoff:

 

[TreeClimber]

How are kids still either graduating or in there high school years with such poor grammer and spelling? I can understand some occasional incorectly spelled words and grammer here and there. But man I can't believe some of the stuff you see on the net these days. I know my grammer isn't the best but alot of mine comes from trying to move too fast.

We have a kid at work who (your going to laugh here) always asks me how to spell a words. He graduated last year and the stuff he asks about is what I consider basic used words too....

You shouldn't talk. You have 5 misspeeelled words. And another used out of context.

Cut and paste that text into Word.
Grammer (misspeeelled 3 times)
Incorectly
Alot

plus "There" should be "Their"

 

[crash2]

You shouldn't talk. You have 5 misspeeelled words. And another used out of context.

Cut and paste that text into Word.
Grammer (misspeeelled 3 times)
Incorectly
Alot

plus "There" should be "Their"

You missed the point of the thread. Sure my grammer isn't the best and I do mispell words--but you can still easily read it.

Go look at posts on other forums where you have these 14-19 year olds posting crap you can hardly tell what they are trying to say without getting a head ache.

 

[Flexy Backhand]

if anything I honestly think its the older people who cant spell... imo-- back in my parents day grades werent important like they are nowadays- my dad passed highschool most likely cause of football and he was the bus mechanic :redneck:

i think this calls for the 2010 NWW Inter-County Spelling BEE

 

[boardbysled]

In the puyallup school district they go to the next grade by age, and they graduate by grade, I was talking to the high school counselor about it and he said they graduate 4 or 5 every year that are illiterate. Pretty sad, but it isn't PC to flunk anyone now a days, it might hurt their feelers. :rolleyes:

Drop out/fail percentages look bad for schools. On the other hand, you think they would get more assistance in funding if they had a slightly higher drop out/fail percent.:eeek:

 

[Glenn]

You shouldn't talk. You have 5 misspeeelled words. And another used out of context.

Cut and paste that text into Word.
Grammer (misspeeelled 3 times)
Incorectly
Alot

plus "There" should be "Their"

You needed Word? :haha: Fail.

 

[TreeClimber]

You missed the point of the thread. Sure my grammer isn't the best and I do mispell words--but you can still easily read it.

Go look at posts on other forums where you have these 14-19 year olds posting crap you can hardly tell what they are trying to say without getting a head ache.

I didn't miss the point. It's just fun to pick on the Almighty, every now and then.

Yes, I agree, that the Youth Of Today, are pathetic when it comes to basic reading and writing skills. It pains me to read some of the drivel they write. It's almost like writing skills have been negated with the word processing programs, and text messaging of today.

 

[TreeClimber]

You needed Word? :haha: Fail.

I don't need Word. I deliberately misspeel words.

Or fearless Admin needs Word. Desperately. He doesn't know when he does it. But his speeling is easily read. Not so with the quite a few of the members of this forum. You couldn't read their posts with a dictionary in your right hand, and beer bottle goggles in the left.

 

[4xrick]

You shouldn't talk. You have 5 misspeeelled words. And another used out of context.

Cut and paste that text into Word.
Grammer (misspeeelled 3 times)
Incorectly
Alot

plus "There" should be "Their"

You missed the point of the thread. Sure my grammer isn't the best and I do mispell words--but you can still easily read it.

Go look at posts on other forums where you have these 14-19 year olds posting crap you can hardly tell what they are trying to say without getting a head ache.

you also forgot the fact that he was talking about kids who graduate these days.
mike graduated in like 1920. with a d average:fawkdancesmiley:

 

[Lucky Jeff]

I could never play the game in High school. You didn't need to know how to spell. You didn't need to do well in math. You had to show up, attempt the work, and that was good enough. You showed effort, and that's all they cared about. I never did finish high school. But I did go straight to Green River and got my Good enough diploma shortly after. I honestly did horrible in school. But when I took the tests, I always aced them. I HATED homework, and that was all they gave a **** about. It didn't even need to be correct.

 

[Flexy Backhand]

if you all had the web when you were kids im sure you would spell just as bad as todays youth :awesomework: :awesomework:

 

[crash2]

I don't need Word. I deliberately misspeel words.

Or fearless Admin needs Word. Desperately. He doesn't know when he does it. But his speeling is easily read. Not so with the quite a few of the members of this forum. You couldn't read their posts with a dictionary in your right hand, and beer bottle goggles in the left.

How many techs do you know who are perfect in there grammmmer and speeeeling :redneck:

 

[CrustyJeep]

You couldn't read their posts with a dictionary in your right hand, and beer bottle goggles in the left.

Wut gud do beer bottle goggles do wen there in yer left hand?

 

[bobbed_84_toy]

I HATED homework, and that was all they gave a **** about. It didn't even need to be correct.

This is pretty much how it is. Also the reason I almost failed, I never did my homework

 

[zukkev]

You missed the point of the thread. Sure my grammer isn't the best and I do mispell words--but you can still easily read it.

Go look at posts on other forums where you have these 14-19 year olds posting crap you can hardly tell what they are trying to say without getting a head ache.

Hell, don't even have to go anywhere!!!:redneck: Have you seen some of the crap that gets posted right here??? There have been more than a few that use the txt format---drives me nucking futz!!! :mad:

 

[TreeClimber]

How many techs do you know who are perfect in there grammmmer and speeeeling :redneck:

Not that many. But to do your job, YOU must be very articulate. All your shop skills are based on the ability to read (and comprehend) the detailed, technical verbage. Yeah it helps to have basic logic skills (to understand how things work), but with today's technology, it's reading comprehension more than any other daily skill that keeps you employed. If you can understand what the book (or computer) is telling you, then and only then are you likely to fix the car, fix it correcty, fix it right the first time, and make time on the repair.

So you may not have the best Grammmmer and Speeeeling, but you do have better grammar and spelling skills than you (actively) demonstrate here.

 

[82toyomud]

How are kids still either graduating or in there high school years with such poor grammer and spelling? I can understand some occasional incorectly spelled words and grammer here and there. But man I can't believe some of the stuff you see on the net these days. I know my grammer isn't the best but alot of mine comes from trying to move too fast.

We have a kid at work who (your going to laugh here) always asks me how to spell a words. He graduated last year and the stuff he asks about is what I consider basic used words too....

Well quite frankly its the net, and most don't think before they post, or read what they wrote before they post. Plus, I'm pretty sure I've read more miss spelled or misuse of grammer in posts from the "older" crowd that had a "real" education than the "younger" crowd.

In May I will be graduating with a BS in M.E. and I graduated from Monroe; I took as many English courses as I could. In every single English course I have taken during my college career (I have taken twice as many necessary to graduate) the material had already been covered in my high school courses. If you want to learn, and want to excel the resources are at your disposal. If you want to be an imbred hillbilly they (the schools) are ok with that. I went through the sno-isle system, and went the technical route for a couple years, all while taking Honors english, history and math. The schools let me chose what path I wanted to take, and didn't hold me back.

Now that I've been out of high school for 5 years I've looked back at what the school provided me, and they gave me an excellent skill set. The places where I lacked when I entered college were because of my own unwillingness to study and give a **** during those classes or subjects during class.

It's not necessarily the schools don't give a crap, it's mostly the students don't give a crap.

 

[CrustyJeep]

most don't think before they post, or read what they wrote before they post.
...
mostly the students don't give a crap.

Yep. Some people just don't care that they look like complete idiots to their peers.

 

[Mrs. Crash]

Its technology. first it was calculators then spell check now it's the whole texting generation. it's like they are speaking a whole different language.

that reminded me of something my daughters teacher said. She said that too many of the kids don't know how to spell cause of texting so they use text language. So everything is short and simple.

 

[crash2]

Not that many. But to do your job, YOU must be very articulate. All your shop skills are based on the ability to read (and comprehend) the detailed, technical verbage. Yeah it helps to have basic logic skills (to understand how things work), but with today's technology, it's reading comprehension more than any other daily skill that keeps you employed. If you can understand what the book (or computer) is telling you, then and only then are you likely to fix the car, fix it correcty, fix it right the first time, and make time on the repair.

So you may not have the best Grammmmer and Speeeeling, but you do have better grammar and spelling skills than you (actively) demonstrate here.

I have to totaly dissagree with you on one point and thats logical skills. You may not see it unless you are in the enviroment day in and out. I have seen alot of guys over the years who were A+ students, pretty bright but they totaly lacked the ability of logical reasoning. I have seen those types time and time again fall flat on there face, make drastic mistakes and so on. I had a long conversation with my boss about this very aspect of the job. Logical reasoning is the number one strong suit of being in the industry I am. Plus with having a strong logical reasoning you can easily comprehend what you are doing and why..

 

[Lucky Jeff]

Well quite frankly its the net, and most don't think before they post, or read what they wrote before they post. Plus, I'm pretty sure I've read more miss spelled or misuse of grammer in posts from the "older" crowd that had a "real" education than the "younger" crowd.

In May I will be graduating with a BS in M.E. and I graduated from Monroe; I took as many English courses as I could. In every single English course I have taken during my college career (I have taken twice as many necessary to graduate) the material had already been covered in my high school courses. If you want to learn, and want to excel the resources are at your disposal. If you want to be an imbred hillbilly they (the schools) are ok with that. I went through the sno-isle system, and went the technical route for a couple years, all while taking Honors english, history and math. The schools let me chose what path I wanted to take, and didn't hold me back.

Now that I've been out of high school for 5 years I've looked back at what the school provided me, and they gave me an excellent skill set. The places where I lacked when I entered college were because of my own unwillingness to study and give a **** during those classes or subjects during class.

It's not necessarily the schools don't give a crap, it's mostly the students don't give a crap.

I could correct a lot of your post, Mr. English professor :fawkdancesmiley:

But I disagree with you about the kids vs. schools (to a point). The teachers and schools have their hands tied behind their backs by so much bull****. That all they can do anymore, is give up. But that's not all of it of course. Many of the parents today, sure as hell shouldn't be parents.

 

[PUO-BANNED]

I have to totaly dissagree with you on one point and thats logical skills. You may not see it unless you are in the enviroment day in and out. I have seen alot of guys over the years who were A+ students, pretty bright but they totaly lacked the ability of logical reasoning. I have seen those types time and time again fall flat on there face, make drastic mistakes and so on. I had a long conversation with my boss about this very aspect of the job. Logical reasoning is the number one strong suit of being in the industry I am. Plus with having a strong logical reasoning you can easily comprehend what you are doing and why..

I think that would be the inductive reasoning part of logic. I think i got that right :haha:

 

[TrikeKid]

Teachers don't like the bad rep they get for flunking kids. I graduated high school by tenths of a percent in some classes, (Mostly English classes), because I figured out there wasn't really anyone to stop me just going the hell home once I started driving myself to school. I probably missed half of the last semester of my senior year.

I know other people that showed up consistently and magically passed with worse grades, they were pushed through even though they couldn't do the work. The teachers/administrators at the school knew the school would get more funding if they didn't look like they were doing a **** job on paper, regardless of if their students could put a coherent thought down on paper.

The way my school taught kids to write wasn't the best, because they pretty much told you to write things down, THEN put them together in their little formula, instead of actually organizing what the **** you were trying to say.