Comments on: Wat U Thnk?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:00:13 +0000

Hugs, Sheryl. THat’s got to be so frustrating for both of you.

LOL, Dee! I’m hoping it’s not board members. :happy2:

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:42:43 +0000

LOL, I’m afraid of what it means when the board members use it. Thankfully, not the authors. So, it must be readers. Or just the folks who wish they were readers….who knows?

By: Sheryl M

Sheryl M — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:14:11 +0000

I’m right there with you on this. I have a spelling disabled child. She reads and comprehends on a lower level than her peers. Using a dictionary? Not happening because she CANT SPELL. This is so not fun when it comes to papers because I have to make her tell me what she wants it to say, write it down for her, and then let her copy it. :fryingpan:

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:52:10 +0000

Rhonda, I’ve reached this same conclusion. Despite the wail of, “But I HATE to read!), which is SO painful to me, I implemented this yesterday. 30 minutes. and the book was promptly abandoned when the timer went off. :wallbash:

Kimberly, apparently they lack logic right along with spelling and grammar skills. :fryingpan:

Are we not talking about readers and writers who show up on these boards, Dee? For crying out loud. I’ll head bang with you. :wallbash: :wallbash:

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:39:24 +0000

My general rule of thumb is that if they can’t write English properly, they aren’t allowed to write a ruined version. I despise the purposeful spelling twists. What drives ME crazy is when adults use it, lol. (Yup, it shows up on the boards.) *beats head on table*

Dee

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:57:31 +0000

It does bleed into school work. I get Freshmen Comp papers with that crap in it–even after we’ve had The Talk about my odd insistance on actual English words only in all papers.

Of course, I make them use real words and punctuation in thier emails to me as well. I’m your *ENGLISH* teacher, for crying out loud. I *expect* punctuation like I expect air to be there. (And they just don’t understand why it’s not a good idea to send emails that bear no grammatical resemblence to English to their English teacher when they’re trying to convince her to increase a grade… oh, the irony.)

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:00:55 +0000

I’ve decided that I’m going to make reading here mandatory. Doesn’t matter if you don’t like to read. You’re going to do it. Period.

My kids aren’t going to be happy.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:51:14 +0000

Bless your heart!! At least I’m not paying anything more than taxes through the nose for my Girl’s pisspoor eductation. At that point I would’ve become a raving lunatic (of course, it really doesn’t take much to send me skewing that way!). :cursing:

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:59:35 +0000

Jen, here’s one for you. I was going over my 8th Grader’s!!! report last night and came across the word “pacifically.”

I’m like, “Son, what the heck is this?”

“You know, Mom. Like when you tell me that you ‘pacifically’ told me to do something.”

Have I mentioned that I’m killin’ myself paying for private school and this is what I’m pacifically getting for my $$$?

:wallbash: :fryingpan:

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:54:01 +0000

Rhonda and Marilyn, it’s that “bleed over” that’s downright frightening. How will these kids manage at a college or in a corporate or medical or academic world that doesn’t tolerate this? I guess they’ll manage.