It's a situation not limited to the UK, it's the same here in Canada Hodie Non Cras
On 2011-08-28, at 12:46 PM, Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14683133 > > doesn't frankly surprise me; after all "Being British" is all about dumbing > down things to the lowest common denominator; education, over-regulation > (after all, if 5% of the population are morons the government must screw up > everybody's life by regulating things to protect the morons from themselves: > maybe the morons should be told "you are morons, get off your fat, > supplementary-benefit-fed bottoms and start getting your brains working). > > I have just been looking at a series of letters written to my younger son > from his erstwhile school mates at his school in Fife, Scotland; filled with > basic spelling errors and grammar problems (these kids were 11 at the time); > most of them being monoglot English speakers, a few spoke Fife-Scots at home. > My sons, who have English and Bulgarian as mother tongues, and are both > fluent in German, don't make those sort of spelling errors in any of their 3 > dominant languages. > > If sschool kids cannot spell in their school language how on earth can one > expect them to get their programming syntax right, let alone the odd nested > FOR . . . NEXT loop? > > My younger son starts at Salem on the 10th; as the highest scholarship holder: > > http://www.salem-net.de/ > > I wonder why I'm not sending him to school in Britain? > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
