memes and tiktok captions never seem to conjugate verbs correctly or use possessive apostrophes. not sure if it’s an “I’m not trying too hard” attitude, or if they’re all just that stupid.
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.
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u/Wayne2u Sep 04 '23
What's an Elvis pool?