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Originally Posted by seretogis
No one likes a speling/grammar nazi, and yet I feel compelled to bring this up since it is relevant to the thread topic.
In your OP you misuse there/their/they're and to/too/two several times and typed "ect" rather than "etc," perhaps due to lack of knowledge of what etc means. Etc. is shorthand for "et cetera" and is typically pronounced et-see by people who use it frequently. These are things that a lot of people have trouble with, and yet is taught early on. Why do people in their child-bearing years struggle with things we are taught in grade school (admittedly, you used it correctly once below, so may have just been tired/inattentive when writing the OP)? My guess, is a lack of reading.
While in public school I read roughly a book a week, and it is a hobby that I carried from grade school through to today (though most of my reading these days is online.) Simply seeing proper usage of words over and over again in books is helpful in pounding into someone's head how the written word should look, and how certain words are used. If you do not read often, it will be more difficult to understand there/their/they're and to/too/two in context with how they should be used (among other things..) If a teacher doesn't fulfill his or her basic responsibility to force/encourage students to read, I wouldn't pay them any more than $18k either.
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My problem was I was writing this in a hurry before a meeting and was typing without reviewing what I wrote. It is also why it doesn't flow well. Though I'll admit my grammar is not as good as it should be. I don't know if this is because of a lack of interest when I was a kid or poor teachers. All through out school I was breezing through math courses without even trying but never did well at spelling and grammar. I think the reason I excelled at math was I had a few good teachers that showed me my potential.
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Originally Posted by powerclown
America has the best, most prestigious, most intensive and comprehensive centers of learning on Planet Earth. Not everyone is book smart, so what? - society needs dishwashers and janitors equally as much as they need brain surgeons and astrophysicists.
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But these are in higher education (graduate school and beyond). Our colleges are party houses where a large percentage of students are there to party. Grade inflation has made it so most people get A's and very few fail. Students that should be failing are getting C-'s so they don't have to retake the classes.