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I think it has a lot to do with the learning technologies that exist now. It's not just spelling and grammar that are going down hill, it's also hand writing skills. I should know, my hand writing looks like I'm an amputee holding a pencil between my elbow stubs. Because of this decay in hand writing, many teachers require their students to type out papers instead of writing them by hand, and as a result, the kids don't bother to learn proper spelling and grammar, because all they have to do is a spell check.
The same thing goes for a lot of adults now. They don't bother to check their papers, because they assume that spell check has done it's job. People don't put the same effort into learning the english language because they believe that computers can fix all of their errors for them.
I think it might have been a neat study to have distributed the faulty papers and had students check them for the errors. It would have been neat to see if the elementary school students knew how to spell better than the test writer.
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