Has anyone else noticed how strange and perhaps silly the world is becoming? How people often say things that just make you go.....HUH? Mr. Obama recently stated that oil evaporates......Our local news anchor evedently has changed the way we are to say Benjamin to BenHa-mean.....a courthouse employee is going to put an ad "on" the paper.....a local sign company makes "magentic" signs....(magnetic?)....does anyone feel their high school English teacher cringing?????? Not to mention your journalism teacher....I for one still look for the " who, what, when, where, why and how" when I read a story.....alot of times it isn't there! Funny how we are spending more and more on education and the kids know less and less. Is teaching to a test really working? Sure the kids are doing math and other things earlier and earlier but where is penmanship, sentence structure, spelling.....If our education was so bad how can we be teaching our youth? A person can be smart as a whip but if they can't string words together to make an intelligent sentence what good are they going to accomplish in the job market? How will they apply for one? Ahhhhh yes, I forgot! The computer! The do all, say all, fix all, know all of our society....yep I'm typing on one now. That's not to say I condem them...they are great when they work but when they don't? Ever been shopping when a stores computer was down or there was a power failure? Know very many people who can make change in that situation?
Ahhh the good old days! Spelling tests, writing all those continuous circles, all those term papers with proper sentence structure.....
Myra, you are so right on... Girl, I didn't know you had a blog. I'm just going to have to take the time to go back and read earlier postings. Could you link it to FB?
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