Education minister’s blog littered with spelling mistakes. (Does this tell you something?)

 

1. Spel Chek Sayv Uz Awl!

   Actually, I am a pretty decent speller. Sometimes I run across a word that I just can’t get right, like “necessary”. I make myself say it and write it time after time over the course of several days. Sometimes I wrack my little brain and come up with a mnemonic. (another word I have trouble with. I just wrote it as “memnonic”. Thank you Firefox Spell Checker) Right now I need to do that with “maintenance”, another one that gives me fits. Pneumatic mnemonics, pneumonia and phonics? Schematic neurotics, euphonious Ebonics! Moses supposes his toes are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously!

   Lucky for me I have a wife who is even better at spelling than I am, so I can always ask her. She is particularly good at grammar as well, so much so that corrupted words like “normalcy” and “irregardless” drive her up the wall.

   Posted by Drew458       02/06/2009  at  03:50 PM  



2. The man is not a bad speller, he’s a bad typer.

   Posted by mythusmage       02/06/2009  at  07:27 PM  



3. A BAD TYPER?
   Love it. That’s my new best excuse now. Thanks.

   “normalcy” and “irregardless” drive her up the wall.

   And quite right too. Bad as I am I have always understood that second word, the sound of which grates. I’m always surprised when I hear people use that “irr” word on the radio or in some news interview.

   Phonics? A problem?
   Ebonics? Don’t even go there. There is no such thing so it doesn’t matter how you spell it.
   For example.  Religion of peace. If referring to islam, doesn’t matter how the words are spelled since it’s all make believe anyway. rop indeed.ha.

   Posted by peiper       02/07/2009  at  04:38 AM  



4. Surprised? Not am I. (a little Yoda lingo there...)

   I well remember the letter I received from my step-son’s English teacher back ‘92. I wish I’d kept it. Misspellings, poor grammar, sentence construction, etc. And she was defending the fact that she didn’t assign homework! An item I had brought up at the parent-teacher conference when my step-son was failing…

   I used her letter to get her fired. That took some time. But she was a first-year hire. It was relatively easy. It was also obvious that she was incompetent.

   Then I bought some English textbooks from A Beka Books and tutored him at home. He hated that, because I assigned homework for the classes that didn’t.

   But he’s the first member of his family to ever graduate high school. His older brother didn’t. But his older brother never lived under my roof.

   I was his step-father, not his friend. Well, actually, I was, and am, his friend. But parents should be parents first, friends second. At least until the kids are adults themselves. He just didn’t appreciate it at the time. I think he does now that he’s in his early 30’s and a father himself.

   BTW, my wife – his mother – thought I was being mean at the time. I was ‘too hard’ on him. This is why single-mother households breed irresponsible, indeed criminal, adult males. They don’t instill discipline and standards. My mom would’ve failed with me without the old threat:

   “Wait until your (step)father gets home.”

   I guess my point is: ultimately, whether or not your kids attend public, private, or home-school, or some combination thereof, ultimately it is the PARENT’S job to ensure the kid’s succeed. And you have to do this in SPITE of the NEA teachers’ union.

   Posted by Christopher       02/08/2009  at  12:04 PM  



5. Christopher,
   Very interesting comment and by coincidence there is an article on just that subject in the Mail and the Telegraph with regard to failed parents and education.

   Cut to the chase, their kids are costing the taxpayer a fortune AND, very large numbers are impossible to educate and will NOT find employment. They have NO social skills and NO work ethic.

   Posted by peiper       02/10/2009  at  12:20 PM  

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