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They haven't required kids at school to undertake spelling lessons and tests for years. It's a crime, actually. We've brought up several (school) generations of people who can't read and write properly. I've seen the results of this at Uni. How anyone could get into an University not having the basic skills of reading and writing mastered to the extent that they can undertake a degree course, beggars belief in my opinion. Although, it's understandable when you consider that their teachers at school could barely accomplish reading and writing themselves. It's all because of these trendy, "socially progressive" academics (mostly in the U.S., as this is where most of the ideas have come from) who sit on their backside in their little ivory towers, dreaming up schemes to "enrich" and "empower" the student's school lives. To expand on their "creative" abilities and allow them to "find their own place" in the world. Most have never seen anything resembling reality as they've been cooped up in their strange worlds inside their offices, dreaming up seriously warped ideas about how everyone else should conduct their lives and their learning. Then everything gets adopted by the usual idiots...politicians...and everything goes out the window. Anyway, regardless of their degrees, most politicians have had poor educations. Apart from their specialisation at Uni, most would know "JS" about anything else. That's when they get "experts" to advise them, and they know even less!!.
No wonder the world is dysfunctional.
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