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   "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
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   > "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   > news:hvs8d1$u46$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
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   > > "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   > > news:hvr9pt$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.   
      
   Dropping Shakespeare and other such nonsense to have time to actually teach   
   useful and necessary things makes a school better.   
      
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