I read a paper that a student dictated to his phone and printed out. He didn't correct anything including the misspelling of his own name!!!!! There was no punctuation so the whole page was one long sentance.
College athletes are even worse than English language learners. I guess because grammar is racist? Which believing that grammar is racist in itself is racist because people of color cannot learn basic grammar....? 🤔 I digress.
I taught both -- a lot of the ESL at college is taught by private companies (that's a whole other shady business but...). The international students have to reach a certain standard of English before they can get into the university. Sometimes the companies hire shit (although this tends to start a problem when said students' gov'ts. who paid for this start getting failed students back -- so sometimes the shit gets weeded out); often they get English teachers who have ran afoul of PC university or public schools -- many of them are very good at what they do...teaching actual English. Secondly, the incoming students have to learn grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading/listening comprehension, and speaking/writing skills...to they get a lot of fundamentals that American students just don't get anymore. I've taught in the elementary schools as well: we don't teach basic grammar really: we don't teach sentence writing, we don't teach paragraph writing...it's straight to essays (7 year olds who can't spell that well; can't really compose a good sentence...writing 'essays"...fml). Use the computer, use grammar and spell check and yes, dictate to your phone...that's what a lot of teachers tell these kids to do (probably because some of the younger teachers can't do it either; and that's in the SBoE's curriculum guidelines: look them up, they're a trip!).
The college athletes are there to play a sport -- for that matter, non-athletes are there to fill chairs and give the college money. The colleges don't give a rat's ass if they learn anything or even graduate. Athletes just get to stay in school...if they're any good.
I know there has also been a debate for many years about not graduating, or moving to the next grade, students that don't pass. That really seems to be something that needs to be re-instituted.
It's been that way for the past 30 years. The issue today seems to be allowing students to stay in the class if they become violent -- because suspensions are, you guessed it: racist (and if they can't suspend one group of kids, then they really can't suspend any...or at least it's really hard so why do it?).
And I'm not just talking about public school -- there have been a growing number of incidents in college classrooms.
I read a paper that a student dictated to his phone and printed out. He didn't correct anything including the misspelling of his own name!!!!! There was no punctuation so the whole page was one long sentance.
College athletes are even worse than English language learners. I guess because grammar is racist? Which believing that grammar is racist in itself is racist because people of color cannot learn basic grammar....? 🤔 I digress.
I taught both -- a lot of the ESL at college is taught by private companies (that's a whole other shady business but...). The international students have to reach a certain standard of English before they can get into the university. Sometimes the companies hire shit (although this tends to start a problem when said students' gov'ts. who paid for this start getting failed students back -- so sometimes the shit gets weeded out); often they get English teachers who have ran afoul of PC university or public schools -- many of them are very good at what they do...teaching actual English. Secondly, the incoming students have to learn grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading/listening comprehension, and speaking/writing skills...to they get a lot of fundamentals that American students just don't get anymore. I've taught in the elementary schools as well: we don't teach basic grammar really: we don't teach sentence writing, we don't teach paragraph writing...it's straight to essays (7 year olds who can't spell that well; can't really compose a good sentence...writing 'essays"...fml). Use the computer, use grammar and spell check and yes, dictate to your phone...that's what a lot of teachers tell these kids to do (probably because some of the younger teachers can't do it either; and that's in the SBoE's curriculum guidelines: look them up, they're a trip!).
The college athletes are there to play a sport -- for that matter, non-athletes are there to fill chairs and give the college money. The colleges don't give a rat's ass if they learn anything or even graduate. Athletes just get to stay in school...if they're any good.
I know there has also been a debate for many years about not graduating, or moving to the next grade, students that don't pass. That really seems to be something that needs to be re-instituted.
It's been that way for the past 30 years. The issue today seems to be allowing students to stay in the class if they become violent -- because suspensions are, you guessed it: racist (and if they can't suspend one group of kids, then they really can't suspend any...or at least it's really hard so why do it?). And I'm not just talking about public school -- there have been a growing number of incidents in college classrooms.