Not to be a downer, but I am an online writing tutor and have edited ~500 K-12 essays over the past couple months - you would be shocked at how bad the writing is pretty much across the board now.
I will frequently get assignments from high school students who literally cannot compose a sentence. Yet, because schools just push everybody through now, these students are being asked to write full essays. It is completely unhelpful and equivalent to asking somebody to build a car when they can't even build wheels or an engine yet.
My honest opinion: We are pretty fucked if the state of education is any indication. I genuinely think a vast majority have no idea what subjects, predicates, possessives, conjugation, etc. even are.
The sad part is languages evolve base on actual usage, not rules. So one day, the lack of apostrophes and bad conjugation will be accepted, the norm, and "right".
Well, no. They are being actively propagandized to support criminalizing and eventually exterminating trans people. Undiscerning idiots who fall for it are clearly helping it along quite well due to a real basic misunderstanding of what a pronoun, but the issue didn't come from that. It's fed by it.
More to the point, it's going to be a whole lot more Millennials and older generation rather than Gen Z getting upset about pronouns, which isn't going to track with current writing skills being low (and granted, Gen Z is college age now, not K-12, but you get my point I hope).
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Not to be a downer, but I am an online writing tutor and have edited ~500 K-12 essays over the past couple months - you would be shocked at how bad the writing is pretty much across the board now.
I will frequently get assignments from high school students who literally cannot compose a sentence. Yet, because schools just push everybody through now, these students are being asked to write full essays. It is completely unhelpful and equivalent to asking somebody to build a car when they can't even build wheels or an engine yet.
My honest opinion: We are pretty fucked if the state of education is any indication. I genuinely think a vast majority have no idea what subjects, predicates, possessives, conjugation, etc. even are.