Today, as a high school English teacher, I had to read submissions for a writing contest. The entries were filled with words like "irregardless", "could of", "acrost", and "ain't". These papers were supposedly written by the best students in the school. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, after submitting a 500-word essay to a writing contest, I found out that I lost to someone who wrote 3 sentences. FML
Today, my teacher's comments on my essay read, "I know it's college, but you use a lot of unnecessary words with a lot of syllables." He basically scolded me for having a complex vocabulary. I go to an accredited state university. Nothing says "America" like under-achieving professors. FML
Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, I found out that my son thinks it's acceptable to use words like "on fleek" in high school level essays. FML
Today, I received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
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tj4234 36
America has had a terrible education system for decades. It's not a new thing. If anything, it was improved under Obama.
stormy0307 16
I had one that demanded you write (sic) behind every quote. You only use (sic) after a quote or word if they used improper grammar and it's letting the reader know that improper phrase is exactly what the person said.
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Comments (58)
Catdragon 40
This could of been worse
Summaria 10
As a non-native English speaker a serious question: What's wrong with "ain't"? I thought it was a genuine word...?
MidnaLink 35
Ain't is a badly used way of saying "am not".
sadistmonkey 19
It's not bad usage, it's merely colloquial usage. It might not be wise to use it in standard written English because it's the wrong register for that unless you are quoting a character, but it's not "bad".
jcash52426 5
Maybe they just don't have a very good English teacher
Tb2806 3
He used improper grammar and quotations for emphasis in the post here, so yes, I think it's probably the teacher.
Khnz0052 5
It's not the students fault if their teachers can't teach them properly.
Sertorius 10
*students'
Zehir_fml 10
I can top this. I am a Creative Writing major and I have seen a story by a senior that did not know the difference between its and it's or to and too.
xx000o 27
I don't not see nuthin wrong with them their words.
NuttyProfessor 7
You axed for it.
icemand90 17
acadamy of ridiculously good looking kids who want to learn gooder?
richay117 6
I feel that "ain't" is colloquial, if it is used in dialogue.
richay117 6
I feel that "ain't" is colloquial, if it is used in dialogue.