(Darius S. Naqvi) wrote:

Rosalie B. writes:

My niece is considering sending her child to private school because
they don't have spelling in the her son's class. The reason given is
that some people in the class are not native English speakers. Does
that reason make sense to anyone? It doesn't to me.

Now there's good reasoning for you: some people in the class have
trouble spelling, so *nobody* in the class will be taught how to
spell! That way we achieve complete equality in terms of spelling
ability!

My husband was once told that his 4.0 grade on a performance test was
being downgraded because a perfect score might pose a problem for
other students who could not attain that score. So they took a couple
of points off.

Apparently spelling isn't the only problem here. It looks like
logical thinking was not taught to the people responsible for this
idiotic decision.

I'm wondering whether it isn't just that this particular teacher
doesn't want to grade spelling tests.