The Obama Presidency

[Advocate]

Not in US 2013. Its quickly becoming HS 2.0

And I don't know if you've gone, or for what, or how many classes, but even if you take mostly classes you like, you still end up with some that feel like someone else's shit. A fine oiled machine that makes you the best whatever you want to be, it is not.

Your grammar proves College is not what it's cracked up to be.

[Fe 26]

they don't teach grammar in college

Its one of my big complaints about American education. We hit grammar just in the third and forth grade and if you don't get it there, you're fucked.

I don't think they even teach it in High School

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I learned everything I needed to know in the forth grade.

[Yoshi]

they don't teach grammar in college

Its one of my big complaints about American education. We hit grammar just in the third and forth grade and if you don't get it there, you're fucked.

I don't think they even teach it in High School

I remember sentence diagramming in 7th grade. I can't recall if there were any basics after that. I didn't take a single English class in college and am quite glad. Teaching grammar in high school or after is like teaching arithmetic in high school or after. You can take a short bus to that class.

[Error]

Require all citizens to have at least 2 years of military service before they're allowed to vote. Everyone who gives a crap about the country and it's laws will be trained to used a firearm responsibly.

[Space Pirate Roberts]

Seriously, what an incredibly bad idea. We're already on a slide to fascism, let's grease it up!

[icarusfall]

I can't wait to move to Iceland.

Just waiting till our parents are dead.

I don't identify in any way as "American".

[Yoshi]

We're already on a slide to fascism, let's grease it up!

You voted to grease that slide in many ways. The most important facet of fascism is for the federal government to control everything.

[Fe 26]

I remember sentence diagramming in 7th grade.

Sentence diagramming isn't grammar. I imagine we could take a TNL poll on how many people use it when constructing sentences. It is a lot like proofs in trig. You can do a shit ton with trig without knowing or doing proofs. Like, the first two semesters of physics.

Teaching grammar in high school or after is like teaching arithmetic in high school or after. You can take a short bus to that class.

This is unbelievably retarded. Are you on a mission to troll me this week?

Math builds on itself. I did more basic math in Algebra than I did in basic math. I did more Algebra in Calculus than I did calculus. I did more calculus in Differential Equations than Differential Equations. And so on and so forth.

Maybe the US would have better writers if we took this approach again with writing, instead of this "hope you got it when you were 10 and didn't give a shit because you wanted to play Sonic 2 because you're never going to get help with this ever again"

And don't get me started on how stupid and lazy we do teach grammar when we do. Finding nouns in a sentence is not teaching grammar. Swapping papers to proof read some other retard's paper while you proof read his, isn't either. Its the blind leading the blind. I can't write that well now because dingleberry was thinking about his new puppy dog and not about looking through my essay for errors.

Grammar and writing in the US is a perfect example of why schools need more funding and a larger staff. Students need quality time on this shit.

[Fe 26]

I can't wait to move to Iceland.

Just waiting till our parents are dead.

I don't identify in any way as "American".

Why wait, you crazy coward. Get the fuck out.