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Toppingfrmbottom -> RE: Benefit scroungers ? (7/1/2010 10:23:24 AM)
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Should be, being the key word, I have gone through an entire 12th grade school system and there's STILL area's in my learning that are gapped and missing so bad, you could drive a semi truck through it and not touch the sides. Schools are not that good or thorough in what they're teaching and how good they're teaching the kids. They'er over crowded , under funded, and more and more and STILL MORE programs are being cut every time you turn around.
When I was in 11th grade I saw plenty of other kids in my school age, who couldn't hardly read, or speak properly. In advanced English, there were kids who didn't even know what a prepositional verb phrase was, or what a dangling participial was, and they were 17 -18. I myself was and still am, a student who fell through the cracks so severely when it comes to having been taught grammar, and spelling and rules of grammar and stuff. I wouldn't know a dangling participial, if it walked up and introduced itself.
Sure I read well and my comprehension for the written word is very good, according to my adult ed teacher, but grammar, punctuation, the ability to spell, it's all down the toilet, and I only do as well as I do online because I have a spell checker program that spells everything for me, if I am wrong.
Now, as an adult if you choose* and generic you, not you who I am responding to* to stay ignorant, that's your choice. But a lot of people were cheated by the school system, and there's very little resources available and very little time sometimes to fix your ignorance. Specially if you're basically ignorant of the entire curriculum.
I am barely at a first grader's math ability, I can't count money or make change, and I am just now, at 27 being taught how to do math. I haven't seen a day of long division, or algebra, or calculus, or any of those other forms of math, I should of seen long before now.
And no, not every one is employable at some level, even a basic level. There's people who may be to mentally retarded, for lack of better word to hold a job. There's people who may be to severely health compromised to hold a job. Is that rare? Yes, but there are people out there unfit for the work force.
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ORIGINAL: jennileigh8182
Considering that basic education is required in this country, then everyone has at least a basic level of skills, which makes them employable at some basic level. Because everyone is required to attend a certain amount of school, everyone should be literate.
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