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It is well enough know by now, but bad grammar is bad for
business. When you send a barely literate text or email, the recipient will
judge you ill if it is riddled with grammatical mistakes.
And yet, in New York schools today, grammar is an
afterthought, when anyone teaches it at all.
Apparently, teachers believe that they must choose between
individual self-expression and good grammar. Yes, you heard that correctly.
This, from the Wall Street Journal:
Whether
in public or private schools, teachers worried that their students with bad
writing mechanics would suffer in college and the workplace. Some felt torn
between their desire to enforce the rules and their fear of sucking the joy out
of self-expression. And many were uncertain about how to help teenagers who
weren’t taught—or didn’t learn—the foundations of grammar in earlier grades.
Apparently, the Self that you are being told to express is a
functional illiterate. Of a lower social class.
And, how will these children succeed at an SAT verbal aptitude test if they know nothing of grammar? Will they be
going to college? Evidently, it is not in their future.
As it happens, there is a social class aspect to all of
this. Having bad grammar, speaking barely literate English will consign an
individual to a lower social class. No one is going to sit around a dinner
table with people who do not know how to speak correct English.
5 comments:
"how will these children succeed at an SAT verbal aptitude test if they know nothing of grammar?"
No need. Colleges and universities will just no longer require the SAT for acceptance.
"And, how will these children succeed at an SAT verbal aptitude test if they know nothing of grammar?"
SAT Verbal? Piffle.
"BERKELEY — The chancellors of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, along with the University of California’s chief academic officer, say they support dropping the SAT and ACT as an admission requirement..."
--- LA Times 11/23/19
Since many children do so poorly on the SAT/ACTs, colleges will drop this requirement. Administrators and social science profs need to keep their phony baloney jobs. They need a pipeline of dupes to carry on with their 'work'.
Chris
The race to the bottom continues. I wonder what's at the bottom we are racing toward?
"I wonder what's at the bottom we are racing toward?"
Turtles. It's turtles all the way down.
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