From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:hvs8d1$u46$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >   
   > "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   > news:hvr9pt$iu9$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   >> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >> news:hvr8hk$c3d$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
   >> >   
   >> > Nope, some people simply can't understand simple concepts or   
   >> > communicate   
   >> > properly, not to mention that most people around here don't even   
   >> > understand   
   >> > the concept of "same" and "different".  :-\  You can thank the lowering   
   > of   
   >> > educational standards for that due to schools these days being far too   
   >> > busy   
   >> > sticking their noses into kids' lunchboxes and recreation to bother   
   >> > teaching   
   >> > actual school lessons.   
   >>   
   >> I didn't know that "these days" extended that far back.  The people in   
   > this   
   >> newsgroup by and large have been out of school for better than a quarter   
   > of   
   >> a century.   
   >   
   > Schools stopped teaching proper subjects a along time ago. Even when I was   
   > at school we were forced to read boring Shakespeare and it's archiac   
   > language in "English" classes rather than useful things like correct   
   > spelling, grammar, etc. These days it's even worse and they let kids get   
   > away with using TXT-speak in exams.  :-(   
      
   So dropping Shakespeare makes a school better.   
      
   Just making sure.   
      
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