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They don't really teach grammar anymore in the public schools. I used to love diagramming sentences in 6th grade! I think most kids can't even name parts of speech anymore.
They don't really teach grammar anymore in the public schools. I used to love diagramming sentences in 6th grade! I think most kids can't even name parts of speech anymore.
School has changed even since I started. I started kindergarten in 1997 and the schools still used primitive Apples for a couple years before Dells started coming in around 2000-2001.
Technology has changed so much from what I remember when I was in elementary school. My school still had the same curtains in the cafeteria from the 1960s as recently as 2001. There was no PowerPoint until about 2002.
Schools didn't have real websites until about 2002-2003. Until then, all they had were faculty-staff directories and other things. You couldn't check grades if you were a parent. We had eChalk starting in the 6th grade and it was a big deal.
School has changed even since I started. I started kindergarten in 1997 and the schools still used primitive Apples for a couple years before Dells started coming in around 2000-2001.
Technology has changed so much from what I remember when I was in elementary school. My school still had the same curtains in the cafeteria from the 1960s as recently as 2001. There was no PowerPoint until about 2002.
Schools didn't have real websites until about 2002-2003. Until then, all they had were faculty-staff directories and other things. You couldn't check grades if you were a parent. We had eChalk starting in the 6th grade and it was a big deal.
I hate to say it, but all that technology hasn't advanced education or made the students of today more knowledgeable than their counterparts in earlier periods.
I do really like all the websites and books you can buy yourself today from Amazon, etc. I have been using a diagramming book, because my son and daughter weren't getting taught any grammar.
When I asked my 3rd grade daughter's teacher about diagramming sentences, she said that they don't do that anymore.
Since then, my daughter has been going to a private school and she actually has literature and phonics with separate workbooks. She is getting much more on grammar and parts of speech than her 13 year old brother ever has received
Other punishments were detentions and/or lines or having to write an essay.
They were still doing the "lines" thing? I'm American but I've read stories about masters demanding "lines" of students who disrupt the class. However, those were early P.G. Wodehouse stories from the early 1900s.
For those who don't know--"Lines" = the miscreant having to write out a certain number of lines. In the school stories of P.G. Wodehouse I've read, he'd then have to write out so many lines of Thucydides or Terence or whomever.
They don't really teach grammar anymore in the public schools. I used to love diagramming sentences in 6th grade! I think most kids can't even name parts of speech anymore.
That is not true...
Maybe they can do it after all, but I'm occasionally shocked these days by the grammar and usage of some journalists, radio announcers and others who make their living by writing and speaking publicly. Irregular verbs now seem to confound the overwhelming majority of the populace, and constructions like "have ate" and "have ran" are commonplace. That some verbs actually have three root vowels--like sink/sank/sunk--is utterly incomprehensible, leading to the "a" form fading from use. It used to be that only those who were obviously deficient in their education did this when speaking, but now it seems that it's only the most highly educated who do not.
Language evolves, I know, but it's still like nails on the chalkboard to me.
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