From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:hvts7a$soc$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...   
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   > "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
   > news:hvsuqi$kgf$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
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   >> "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   >> news:hvs8d1$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...   
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   >> >> > 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.   
      
   Such as teaching the difference between objective fact and subjective   
   opinion.   
      
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