Why are Teachers not teaching pupils how to spell?
In UK the education system is slowly being dumned down so that people with low IQs can pass GCSEs and A-Levels. The proof of this is that modern day A-Level exam pupils are unable to complete an A-Level exam set in the 1950s. To be blunt, and even businesses will agree with me, there are a lot of uneducated ‘thick’ people leaving schools with a few worthless A-Levels whom the universities then have to work on to bring them up to ‘standard’. I left school in 1957 with no education what-so-ever, but with a modest degree of understanding of English and some knowledge of spelling. There is no spelling checker showing now, so I’ve no way of checking if my spelling is correct. My grammer is about average. I strongly recommend that children read newspapers from an early age. Any newspaper will do at first, but build up to the quality rags, The Times, Guardian and Telegraph. The Daily Mail, although often referred to as a ‘red-top’ or ‘tabloid’ was actually a broadsheet in my youth. The Englis
Teachers have been told not to mark too much on a student’s paper because it might “hurt their self-esteem.” Pretty much the only time they are supposed to take points off for spelling or grammar mistakes is if the paper is a spelling test or a grammar exercise. Otherwise, they are supposed to grade the work “holistically”, which means to grade based on the ideas in the paper, not the mechanics. Personally, I think kids’ self-esteem will be hurt more when they can’t get hired for a decent job or get into college because they can’t spell, but it’s not up to me.
