Not very good at the alphabet?? I thought that was a prerequisite for being a student at all. I mean, being able to read, write, and alphabetise thing.
sadly, no. The US educational system has periodically gone through fits where teaching basics was thought to inhibit the little dears. Add that to parents who don't help with homework... Gives you an idea of why there's so much badly-written stuff out there. Some people really never learn the basics.
Yep, my friend Carolin from Lexington, KY, who teaches at some university there, is telling me the same thing. Some of them must be painfully inept, and grading is a great pain.
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