From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: khaight@lefDELETEtistME.org (Kyle Haight)   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
   In article ,   
   Dragon Lady  wrote:   
   >   
   >Oh, it's being taught.  They are just being forced to pass kids that when we    
   >were growing up would have flunked.  The direct result, I suspect, of "No    
   >child left behind".   
      
   I suspect the problems go back a lot further than that.  When I   
   turned in my first college writing assignment back in 1990, the   
   TA's sole comment was a plaintive "Somewhere, you learned how to   
   write."   
      
   >Although honestly, when I was in college comp class, and we had to correct    
   >other people's papers, (I was 30 then), I wondered how some of them got out    
   >of high school.  One guy didn't know the difference between their, they're,    
   >and there.  He used every one of them in the wrong.    
      
   For that, I blame the use of the Look-Say method for teaching reading.   
   When you teach kids that the overall look of the word is what matters   
   and you downplay the ability to analyze words into their phonetic   
   and morphological components, the fact that they treat words that look   
   similar as interchangeable isn't surprising.   
      
   More fundamental and more frightening, though, is the suspicion that   
   the incoherence of their writing is simply an accurate reflection of   
   the incoherence of their thinking.   
      
   --    
   Kyle Haight   
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