ohsherrie wrote:
In middle school my grandson had a list of words or terms that he had to memorize every week. He didn't need to learn to spell them or know what they meant, he just had to memorize the words and he had no idea what the purpose of the exercise was. One of the terms one one list was Inalienable Rights. I asked him if he knew what that was and he said no, but I don't need to, I just have to know the word. I told him what it meant and what it applied to and he has since on his own read the document, but
In high school he had a class the name of which I don't recall that was a combination of US history, civics and geography for one school year. That was it!
He's now in Liberty University and of course they are conservative so they aren't trying to teach him socialism, but he has suffered from a lack of proper college preparatory classes in high school.
A friend of mine asked me to help his 21 yr. old daughter apply for government assistance. She is in kidney failure and is too ill to work at the moment. One of the things she had to do was write an explanation of her current health status and why that is effecting her ability to work. What she wrote contained very little sentence structure nor paragraph structure. Also it was filled with spelling mistakes for very common and simple words. She's a high school graduate. I basically had to rewrite the whole document so it made sense to the reader.
