Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] People just keep getting dumber. - Government Schools

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Yah.. now I'm feeling bad for having sent it.  All the more so because 
she then mailed me and asked if I was being mean to her, and if so, why?

Still, I find it offensive that someone makes a request and expects me 
to decipher their message and mentally put in capital letters and commas 
and then mentally fix their horrible spelling and grammar and still 
occasionally coming up shy of understanding their message.

I really am bothered how kids from our 'government schools' aren't able 
to concisely express a single thought in a logical manner, let alone try 
to tell a procedural story, say, about the steps they took to try to get 
their email working, or how the reached some conclusion.

I was a little sad that I hadn't included the following in the initial 
mail, "This can hardly be categorized as a run-on sentence as it lacks 
an introductory capital letter and fails to terminate with a period."

Our kids simply can no longer communicate in either written or spoken 
format.

 // Christian.

Hargus, Diana wrote:
> Ok, that hurt...
> Are people like these the future of our country? I saw a recent Dear
> Abby (possibly Ann Landers) column recently where a kid was complaining
> about having to go to school and they knew everything they needed to
> know.  Is this what is happening to all the kids?  I see a lot of
> children with the same attitude and it has me wondering now.  Since a
> lot of this list is involved in some way with Academia, has anyone
> noticed the trend of "that's what spellcheck is for" in students?
> Thanks
> Diana
>
> * -----Original Message-----
> * From: EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> * [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> * Christian M. Cepel
> * Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:35 PM
> * To: MLUG Off-Topic Discussion
> * Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] People just keep getting dumber.
> * 
> * Here's a message I sent to the FreeCycleColumbiaMO list.  I 
> * couldn't resist.  How could someone write something so very 
> * obfuscated w/o using a single l33t element?  Boggles the mind.
> * 
> * --------------------------------------------------------------
> * ----------
> * 
> * I'd be willing to donate a keyboard that would give you 
> * options for capitalization and punctuation.  Cutting edge.
> * 
> * 
> * elizabeth wrote:
> * > ok i rent from  some  new town homes my water bill was 138 
> * it shows i
> * > had 10 used b4 i moved in and now its up to 70 used i told 
> * the lanlods
> * > here we found there was a water break they shut my water off  i have
> * > asked them to move me becouse  i have been told there could be black
> * > mold under my house now my tile is comming up and so is the 
> * nieghbors
> * > the lanlord was really rude to me so far i have gone 24 
> * hours with no
> * > water they say they are going to fix it the water and the tile but
> * > does that fix the fact that  there could be mold under my 
> * house who do
> * > i go to so i can make sure we will be ok any help on my 
> * rights and who
> * > to call would be nice
> * >
> * >   
> * 
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