Brookfield
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LITERACY IN SCHOOLS & COLLEGES
Before anyone posts on this subject, if they do, I'd like to point out the reason for starting this thread.
In England there has been a huge debate by the Government lately about the level of literacy in schools & colleges here, according to them, it's at an all-time low, some of it due to what is called the text culture, where foreshortened words are now appearing on exam papers, but also slang, such as "gonna" "aint" "wanna & "shouda" & mixing up words like "they're, "their" & "there", punctuation was also looked at, as was the lower case "i" being used for the first person pronoun. all their words not mine, myself, I only had an elementary education, cut short by the war, two of my schools being bombed, resulting in receiving only a shortened education, it's only since leaving that I've been determined not to let that stop me getting on in life, & concentrated on self-improvement, I still make mistakes sometimes, in spelling, using the wrong words, I blame Adolf Hitler for that!
Sorry about the lengthy preamble, but I thought it neccessary, now to get down to it, members are invited to give their views on this state of affairs which apparently not limited to England, by any means.
I'm confident that this won't start a class war here, you all get on well together, regardless, but if I do see squabbles, this could be a very short-lived topic.
Maurice.
Before anyone posts on this subject, if they do, I'd like to point out the reason for starting this thread.
In England there has been a huge debate by the Government lately about the level of literacy in schools & colleges here, according to them, it's at an all-time low, some of it due to what is called the text culture, where foreshortened words are now appearing on exam papers, but also slang, such as "gonna" "aint" "wanna & "shouda" & mixing up words like "they're, "their" & "there", punctuation was also looked at, as was the lower case "i" being used for the first person pronoun. all their words not mine, myself, I only had an elementary education, cut short by the war, two of my schools being bombed, resulting in receiving only a shortened education, it's only since leaving that I've been determined not to let that stop me getting on in life, & concentrated on self-improvement, I still make mistakes sometimes, in spelling, using the wrong words, I blame Adolf Hitler for that!
Sorry about the lengthy preamble, but I thought it neccessary, now to get down to it, members are invited to give their views on this state of affairs which apparently not limited to England, by any means.
I'm confident that this won't start a class war here, you all get on well together, regardless, but if I do see squabbles, this could be a very short-lived topic.
Maurice.