From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: dakidd@sonic.net   
   Subject: Re: THE SHAT won't be in Crap Trek 2   
      
   In article ,   
    "Dragon Lady"  wrote:   
      
   > "Kyle Haight"  wrote in message    
   > news:Cuydncdcq9967cjTnZ2dnUVZ_qidnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   > > 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."   
   >    
   > I suspect you're right, because it was '85 when I took English Comp in    
   > college.  But it's certainly gotten more prevalent with that ridiculous    
   > policy.   
   >    
   >    
   > >   
   > >>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.   
   >    
   > A lot depends on the teacher.  What you're talking about is not teaching    
   > English.  They're teaching these kids to read.  Unfortunately, it interfers    
   > with actually teaching English.  It's a wonder anybody can make it through    
   > high school.   
   >    
   > >   
   > > 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.   
   >    
   > Of course their thinking is incoherent.  TPTB don't want us to think.  They    
   > want us to follow orders.  That's been evident for many years.  People who    
   > think for themselves don't blindly follow political parties, don't vote the    
   > same politicians in over and over again despite evidence that they are    
   > sending the economy into the toilet, etc., etc.  It's why we have terrorist    
   > alert systems, because the more frightened the public is, the less capable    
   > of thinking they are, and it makes it look like the government is actually    
   > in control of something uncontrollable.   
   >    
   > Ok, rant over.   
      
   Sorry, DL, but speaking truth and reality can't properly be called a    
   rant.    
      
   Subversive, perhaps, but not a rant. :)   
      
   (An it prosper...)   
      
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