A headline in the local newspaper reads:
Neighbourly Nuisances
to be Targeted.
One assumes that the writer of the headline meant ‘neighbourhood,’
since I’m not aware of any situation in which being neighbourly would
constitute an actionable nuisance.
Falling standards of English usage in journalism are
becoming ever more apparent, they really are. I wonder whether it has anything
to do with the fact that young people are so highly educated these days.
2 comments:
"I wonder whether it has anything to do with the fact that young people are so highly educated these days."
Standards in education have become so low. A girl i know has recently received her masters and i'm so annoyed by her facebook posts and notes she makes about how hard she's worked for her degrees, etc, and she doesn't know proper grammar, can't construct a sentence, and spells horribly. I'm not the best speller, but usually if i misspell a word i can tell by looking at it that it is incorrect, especially when it has a squiggly red line under it. I can't believe any college or university would give her a bachelors, let alone a masters. These are things she should have learned by at least the fifth grade. And she's not the only person i know who has gone beyond the standard four years and still doesn't know how to write. And still these people somehow manage to be employed in fields where writing is integral.
I know. That's why I made the sarcastic comment.
My theory is that today's education mania isn't about education at all. It's about hiding people away so as to make the unemployment statistics look less damning.
A lot of educationalists in Britain are complaining that standards are falling, but the government keeps saying they're not. It seems that what they're doing is making it easier to get the qualifications, then they can point to the 'increased' success rate and say 'Look how much better educated people are now. Aren't we doing well?'
I'm more inclined to respect people with skills, not qualifications. They're not the same.
When are you coming to England so I can talk to you properly?
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