What's worse than atrocious writing from students?
Teachers who make grammatical mistakes in the notes they tell us to copy.
My English teacher, thank god, doesn't do this, but my Social teacher is particularly bad for it. There is not much worse than having to sit there and stare at the offending apostrophes in, say, 'This legislation gave Anglophone's and Francophone's specific rights.'
Of course I would like nothing more than to disentangle myself from my desk and run up to the whiteboard and just...make it go away! And I might, too, if the teacher wasn't one of those really young guys who thinks he's the coolest and relates every single topic, somehow, to hockey. One of those people who gives the impression that if you proved him wrong, he'd spend the rest of the year holding a grudge and trying to find ways to return the favor.
Yes, I'm a teeny bit unhappy with that particular class.
Anyway, more on topic, students today, as a whole, are not very committed to their education, and many of them just plain unintelligent. That's the impression I get from being surrounded by them every day.There are lots of really smart ones, but the number of people who are passing by some miracle or on the pity of a 'nice' teacher is frightening. I cannot picture most of my classmates in any workplace five years from now, I don't understand how they can build a life on what they take out of the school system.
For the most part, the teachers are pretty good. By the time I reached Jr. High they stopped doing the 'everybody's special' and 'there're no losers!' stuff so blatantly, but they still pass kids who definitely do not know half of the material.
What does this mean for me? It can be a little irritating, but overall I see it as a good thing. Less competition. If that is 'average', then I must be fabulous in the eyes of employers!
In several thousand years when we've devolved to the point where apostrophes are unheard of, I might change my mind.