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over a year ago
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days? 
*jesus
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Yes, I know, didn't want to appear to be too profane. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days?
*jesus
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Presumably you're also so much of a numpty that you can only communicate with emojis. Same school? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days?
*Jesus
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FIFY"
Thank you, James. Wanna fix some more stuff for me? |
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days?
*jesus
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Presumably you're also so much of a numpty that you can only communicate with emojis. Same school?"
No, not really, I just went to one that taught me that when in a glass house, one shouldn't start firing off rocks at people.....  |
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days? "
You're making a very broad assumption there based on the premise that poor spelling is a product of poor education. It might be a result of poor typing skills and lack of attention. Some might argue your apparent lack of consideration of other causes might in itself be an indication of low intelligence. It can act as a filter, so look on it as a positive...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days?
*Jesus
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FIFY
Thank you, James. Wanna fix some more stuff for me? "
Go on then. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days?
*Jesus
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FIFY
Thank you, James. Wanna fix some more stuff for me?
Go on then."
Okay. I've some pictures that need hanging, can you fix that? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
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Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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This how bad it has got.
I once interviewed a so called graduate who had a 'degree' despite having to take no final exams. His 6-month 3rd year project amounted to two sides of A4 filled with Latin placeholder text.
We can kid ourselves that this is OK, but it isn't. People like this are literally unemployable. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life "
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable. "
Ah educated professionals - the get out clause for being high and mighty and not having a clue about other people's struggles |
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I can only add this, so we live in the same street as our primary school, our deputy head is also our daughters teacher, recently they had a task where they had to write the address at which they lived.
Now our street can be spelt in two different ways, the teacher has taught at the school for around ten years, my daughter spelt her address in the way it is spelt, the teacher told her she had spelt the name of the street wrong!!
She replied that she hadn't and that it wasn't spelt the same way as the place name in which it is similar too!!
The teacher then proceeds to send our daughter to the the head teacher to check the spelling and come back with evidence, e.g a letter addressed to the school!!
She did this, and much to the teachers embarassment, our daughter was correct!!!
I can accept that it's easy to confuse the two but ten years at the same school, driving down the same road with the same street sign, really!!!
It's very worrying, luckily we have a clever little monkey, and she is flying through school, so no harm done really  Mrs blue eyes  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable.
Ah educated professionals - the get out clause for being high and mighty and not having a clue about other people's struggles "
Really? Is that your best contribution to this debate? It's 'high and mighty' to be worried about the decline in educational standards? Good grief. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable.
Ah educated professionals - the get out clause for being high and mighty and not having a clue about other people's struggles "
Probably so well educated but have no practical skill. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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" It's very worrying, luckily we have a clever little monkey, and she is flying through school, so no harm done really Mrs blue eyes "
This is the heart of the problem. The bright ones, and the ones with parents who care, can survive the State system and prosper.
The less bright ones and the more disadvantaged ones are the kids who are damaged the most by our terrible teachers.
This increases the inequality in society, which is precisely the opposite of what a good education system is designed to do. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Probably so well educated but have no practical skill. "
Oh, so you think that all the years of education required to be a surgeon, doctor, pilot, engineer, architect etc is a waste of time? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable.
Ah educated professionals - the get out clause for being high and mighty and not having a clue about other people's struggles
Really? Is that your best contribution to this debate? It's 'high and mighty' to be worried about the decline in educational standards? Good grief."
Are there problems in some schools with educational standards - yes
Will this lead to accountants who can't add up - no. The qualifications needed to be one would still be the same - you'd just end up with a shortage of accountants .
My problem is that you have picked up on a spelling mistake and assumed many things . I know quite a few people who while they cannot spell are highly intelligent in other areas . And whether you think it's an excuse or not - there are people who struggle with dyslexia . My point is there isn't one simple answer. |
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" It's very worrying, luckily we have a clever little monkey, and she is flying through school, so no harm done really Mrs blue eyes
This is the heart of the problem. The bright ones, and the ones with parents who care, can survive the State system and prosper.
The less bright ones and the more disadvantaged ones are the kids who are damaged the most by our terrible teachers.
This increases the inequality in society, which is precisely the opposite of what a good education system is designed to do."
. I totally agree, I often have this conversation with our eldest, he is doing fantastically well, we are extremely proud and have and always will support him all the way
Yet he will often come home after an assesment and say' the teacher hadn't covered all the topics again' only because he'd revised from other sources had he done well, I reply with an eagerness to complain to the school, he will ask 'why' because he's doing well in spite of that teacher, my reply is always the same' it's not right to sit by and allow other children in his class to suffer and not do so well, because they don't all have the support at home or are not all perhaps naturally clever' .
Having said that, we have some amazing teachers, I imagine it's the same with all walks of life, good and bad everywhere Mrs blue eyes |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable.
Ah educated professionals - the get out clause for being high and mighty and not having a clue about other people's struggles
Really? Is that your best contribution to this debate? It's 'high and mighty' to be worried about the decline in educational standards? Good grief.
Are there problems in some schools with educational standards - yes
Will this lead to accountants who can't add up - no. The qualifications needed to be one would still be the same - you'd just end up with a shortage of accountants .
My problem is that you have picked up on a spelling mistake and assumed many things . I know quite a few people who while they cannot spell are highly intelligent in other areas . And whether you think it's an excuse or not - there are people who struggle with dyslexia . My point is there isn't one simple answer. "
It's not a spelling mistake. It's ignorance pure and simple. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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,Will this lead to accountants who can't add up - no. The qualifications needed to be one would still be the same - you'd just end up with a shortage of accountants'
I wish you were right but you're not. Even if you were, this would still be worrying. A shortage of professionals is not something to be sanguine about.
In my line of work I routinely deal with young lawyers who don't understand the meaning of some of the words they write, thus causing critical confusion in correspondence.
In airline pilot training professional standards are dropping like a stone, largely because today's generation lack basic knowledge and basic skills.
Think about that next time you board an aircraft.
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
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if "jeezus" passed your spellchecker may i suggest that it needs changing....... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Person could have dyslexia for all I know . I choose not to spend my time judging others about things that really don't affect my life
Ah dyslexia that get-out excuse for all education's ills.
Lack of education does affect all our lives. Accountants that can't add, doctors that can't diagnose, builders that can't measure. This would be the end result of our ongoing tolerance of shit educational standards.
There are some things in life we should be tolerant of and others that we ought to find intolerable.
Ah educated professionals - the get out clause for being high and mighty and not having a clue about other people's struggles
Really? Is that your best contribution to this debate? It's 'high and mighty' to be worried about the decline in educational standards? Good grief.
Are there problems in some schools with educational standards - yes
Will this lead to accountants who can't add up - no. The qualifications needed to be one would still be the same - you'd just end up with a shortage of accountants .
My problem is that you have picked up on a spelling mistake and assumed many things . I know quite a few people who while they cannot spell are highly intelligent in other areas . And whether you think it's an excuse or not - there are people who struggle with dyslexia . My point is there isn't one simple answer.
It's not a spelling mistake. It's ignorance pure and simple."
Something else is showing ignorance to be - but I'll leave it there as can't be bothered getting into an argument |
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"I guess Fab is not the best place to start a thread about educational standards. "
I think it's more a case that fab isn't the place to pull people up on their spelling. In the workplace or schools then it's absolutely correct that people do so but on here it just seems petty and a little nasty. |
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"I guess Fab is not the best place to start a thread about educational standards.
I think it's more a case that fab isn't the place to pull people up on their spelling. In the workplace or schools then it's absolutely correct that people do so but on here it just seems petty and a little nasty. "
Which, of course, I didn't do because I specifically didn't mention names or profiles, or contact the person involved. Instead I started a thread about educational standards. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"When you can't even spell the town you live in. WTF goes on in schools these days? "
The ability to spell doesn't equal the persons intelligence.
I hope somebody with dyslexia doesn't read this and feel down about themselves |
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"It's time we stopped apologising fo our shit education system and idle, sloppy mentality.
When a 25 year old can't even spell the name of the city he lives in (with all the spell checking help now available) then something is seriously wrong.
Dyslexia? Any other condition in a long list of learning difficulties. Jeeessuuusss.
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"This how bad it has got.
I once interviewed a so called graduate who had a 'degree' despite having to take no final exams. His 6-month 3rd year project amounted to two sides of A4 filled with Latin placeholder text.
We can kid ourselves that this is OK, but it isn't. People like this are literally unemployable."
yer gramma is crap OP..
should others be making sweeping generalisations based on that..
or your attitude..
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