ljosberinn
Ouch.. that made my stomach pang :/
So you're saying the problem isn't necessarily the students, but the teachers?
Yes.
When I was in primary school the teacher did quite often pick up on my general grammar errors, like mix ups with their/there and here/hear.
She would complain at my mother that I didn't know these.
My mother would tell me the once.
Then it was ignored until the next year.
Yeah, I guess mother could have been the blame, but the only reason that would be is because the TEACHER relied on the PARENT to TEACH ME.
In High School, they didn't even pick up on it really. They would put red circles around my work, but never explain the correct terms. If a student went to a teacher to ask, they were quite often fobbed off as it was considered a menial subject.
You would think that it would be a difficult task to teach children their basic grammar rules with all the avoidance of doing so.. When I hit college and the tutor realised the disgrace of
every single student in her class not knowing their basic grammar, she took two lessons out of the time table to specifically teach us. That's all it took.
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