Oh you think this is bad, I will tell you where it comes from. About two years ago, my stepdaughter told me about these assignments that her science teacher was having her class do. It was homework and he had set up a blog which conveyed each weekly assignment. They do the assignment in MS Word, then upload the do ent to the blog, etc. I was very excited as I thought that this was a good way to engage students in learning how to use the computer, the efficiencies involved in remote collaboration, etc. Anyway, she did her first assignment and asked me to look it over and I got on her case because she had all sorts of words without the vowels, sentence fragments, and other various errors. I told her about these errors and she got very defiant and told me it was texting language. I told her that although I know she believes that this is an actual new language that the time and place for it is with her friends if at all. I further explained that it has absolutely no place in academic writing. Then she dropped the bombs , "my science teacher told me we could use texting language for our assignments." I actually verbally said "no, Noooooooo" not in a pissed off way, more in a completely abhorrent tone. I immediately told her I would be calling her teacher, sending him a note, and doing anything else necessary to stop that particular instruction, but that she has to fix that right away. Then she got angry and told me "its not like its even English class, it doesn't even matter in Science." That is when I realized that I would be putting my youngest in private school when she got to school age.
I am not going to say that my science teachers corrected every last grammatical error (it wasn't their discipline, and therefore they weren't experts), but I did get counted off for the errors that they did catch.
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