Texas Truth wrote:
Bingo a Japanese second grader is smarter then high school graduate in the United States.
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Texas Truth,
Given your written complaint about American public education, I suppose you consider yourself to be a “shining example” of something other than a public education graduate. If so, perhaps you should follow your own advice and go to Japan and start your basic education all over.
This is hysterical! You’re complaining about U.S. public education and you made 4 mistakes in writing only 1 (bad) sentence.
First) Unless the person you were responding to was named “Bingo,” “Bingo” needs a punctuation mark after it. Hint, it’s an “!.” And, if the person you were responding to was named “Bingo,” the name “Bingo” should’ve had a comma following it, at the very least.
Second) If “Bingo” wasn’t your subject’s name, the “a” following “Bingo” needs to be capitalized.
Third) You, apparently, don’t know the difference in definitions and the use of between the words, “then” and “than.”
Fourth) You left out the word “a” that should’ve followed the word “than” and
I may be nit-picking, but it’s fairly common among the posters in here to use “then” when “than” is the correct word. It’s also common for a lot of people to misuse the words, “too” and “there.” Oftentimes they’ll write “to” when “too” or “two” would be correct and “there” when “they’re” or “their” are the proper words to use.
And, NO!, I’m not an English teacher. However, I AM a proud product of public education, which includes my college degrees. I know I make gramatical mistakes, but I’d really try not to make any, especially when complaining about my country’s educational system. If you and the other complainers in here want to see improvement in our public education system, tell President Gutless Wonder to quit taking our tax dollars away from our public schools so they can be funded enough to get and keep good teachers and get the support the teachers need to do their jobs without taking from their own purses to cover the costs. Find ways to build new schools; schools with the tools needed to teach kids the skill they need to get a decent job in today’s world.
Find ways to get parents involved in their kids’ education. Find ways to stop parents having to work 2-3 jobs just to pay the rent, utilities and buy food. That way, they’ll have more time to spend with their kids and help them learn.
Instead of just sitting back and complaining about how bad education is, get off your asses and actually help the schools and the kids. Become a tutor, a substitute teacher, or a teacher’s aide. Become a mentor to kids who’ve gotten themselves into minor trouble with the law. Help the kids learn how to get along with others; how to choose between right and wrong, take provide in themselves and show respect to others.*
If all you do is bitch and moan about how bad things are, without offering anything viable to help fix things, all you’re doing is adding to the problems education already faces. And, these are problems that’ll not go away on their own.
*I tutor 2 high school kids twice a week; am a substitute teacher, for all grade levels, for the local school district I live in, usually 2-3 times a week; and, am 1 of 5 mentors, helping 25 “troubled youth” avoid major jail time in their futures through our local COMPASS Program (via 90 minute, weekly meetings for 16 weeks).
So, there are several ways whereby people can help our kids get better and smarter. You just need to be willing to give of yourselves instead of being just complainers. Like my old football coach used to say, “If you can’t help us, don’t hurt us.”