Re: THE RANT THREAD!
I'm graduating next week and my senior English class did a lesson on parts of speech two weeks ago because people genuinely did not know things like verb, noun, adverb, adjective or what the predicate of a sentence was. I'm constantly flabbergasted by how downright illiterate some high school students appear to be. I mean it's one thing to do some things wrong every so often, or incorporate (understandable) vernacular that may not be technically correct but there a line that needs to be drawn. This isn't even considering that we seem to be reading books written at a 9th/10th grade reading level and people still complain over how difficult it is. The hardest book we read in class this year was Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and people did so bad with it. Our 11th grade teacher was better about meeting the needs of kids actually reading on grade level but I feel standards are rather low when it comes to reading. Supposedly my state has one of the better education systems in the country and that worries me very much.
Also, the proper way to do an oral presentation is not to stand with your side to the audience, never make eye contact and read from a power point. I apologize if I'm being insensitive or rude but I'm honestly disappointed in my education.
I'm graduating next week and my senior English class did a lesson on parts of speech two weeks ago because people genuinely did not know things like verb, noun, adverb, adjective or what the predicate of a sentence was. I'm constantly flabbergasted by how downright illiterate some high school students appear to be. I mean it's one thing to do some things wrong every so often, or incorporate (understandable) vernacular that may not be technically correct but there a line that needs to be drawn. This isn't even considering that we seem to be reading books written at a 9th/10th grade reading level and people still complain over how difficult it is. The hardest book we read in class this year was Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and people did so bad with it. Our 11th grade teacher was better about meeting the needs of kids actually reading on grade level but I feel standards are rather low when it comes to reading. Supposedly my state has one of the better education systems in the country and that worries me very much.
Also, the proper way to do an oral presentation is not to stand with your side to the audience, never make eye contact and read from a power point. I apologize if I'm being insensitive or rude but I'm honestly disappointed in my education.
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