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Originally posted by tikki
Welcome to today's education system.
No kidding, my AP English teacher would drop one letter grade for each punctuation mistake. Four mistakes on a ten page paper, and you were screwed even if the content was award winning.
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Nothing like lazily enforcing rules rather than encouraging writing. Don't get me wrong, I'm a stickler for rules. But by senior year you should be pushing the kids to create, not follow the template. Did your teacher also teach the "five paragraph essay"? Students I tutored in college didn't know there was any other way to write.