http://blog.evesun.com/2010/03/09/the-times-they-are-a-changing/ Reporters' Blog for the Evening Sun Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:40:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.evesun.com/2010/03/09/the-times-they-are-a-changing/comment-page-1/#comment-57839 JOSLYN KASMARCIK Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:31:06 +0000 http://blog.evesun.com/2010/03/09/the-times-they-are-a-changing/#comment-57839 Ironically we were just discussing the same thing in my English class at Morrisville on the same day you originally posted this. I had made the comment that grammar as we were taught in school seems to have gone to the wayside and I truly feel this has effected the level of readers, writers and so on today. My teacher argued that grammar was a waste of time that should instead be spent teaching children to become avid readers. I disagree strongly; without a firm basis children grow up to be adults who not only cannot write properly, but rarely speak properly and yet this has become the widely accepted norm.
Today I brought in a printout of your blog to show to the teacher. She proceeded to correct your grammar and hand it back to me. I have a copy if you’d like! (If you want to know who it was– a hint: we had her husband for English in Middle School!!) Just thought I’d share…

]]> http://blog.evesun.com/2010/03/09/the-times-they-are-a-changing/comment-page-1/#comment-56677 Scott Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:02 +0000 http://blog.evesun.com/2010/03/09/the-times-they-are-a-changing/#comment-56677 This was inspired by spending your first month reading “30 seconds”, isn’t it?

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