[Wavytone]

Jeremy in Australia some twit (who was probably barely literate) circa 1975 decided those attending public skools didn’t need to lern spieling or gramer as they wood most likly be tradies.

Only those snotty private schools taught these as no doubt their students would be going to uni to study law or medicine, etc.

A few decades later someone else decided we had to be the "knowledge nation" and decided all had to have tertiary education. The only snag however being by that time, few teachers could actually spell, even fewer knew what a “past participle” is, let alone spot a split infinitive in the wild. And as for apostrophes... clueless.

And now we have a massive shortage of tradies, while those with PhD's in astrophysics are reduced to driving taxis, or worse, Ubers.