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| sgort87 |
 Posted: 03/21/2006 2:49 AM Post subject: |
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If you're going to get on everyone's case about grammer then make sure to use "Then" and "Than" correctly. You misused it three times in a row and I know damn well it was for no reason like "I was tired" or "wasn't thinking".  |
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| pimpmann22 |
| Posted: 03/21/2006 3:11 AM Post subject: |
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Are you you kidding me? lol Im sure you have enough brain cells in your head to sort between the two. This is one of those nit-picky things... You would be a good english teacher.
I swear my teacher digs threw my paper to find crap like this and totally throws content out the window [Gort you would be good at this, lol.]. In fact I got 80% on my research paper. Out of the 5 categories I got 100% on 4 of them, then on the grammar one she drops the "zero" bomb. She said she would dock up to 20 points on grammar, one for each error. Turns out I count them up and I dont even have 20. |
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| Shrimphead |
| Posted: 03/21/2006 22:54 PM Post subject: |
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| Oh come on pimp. I can see somebody not caring about than, then, and there, their, they're and stuff like that on forums, but in an english paper, it really does matter. It's not that hard to get that kind of stuff right. |
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| sgort87 |
| Posted: 03/21/2006 23:20 PM Post subject: |
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It's sad that there are many people of other cultures who have mastered a language better than a large percentage of the people it belongs to.
Tony, your form was very nice and I noticed it right away. But I find it very hard to take someone serious when they cannot even use their native language correctly, which is the entire point of your argument in the first place.
By the way: you used the wrong form of "threw/through" in your last reply. |
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| pimpmann22 |
| Posted: 03/22/2006 0:53 AM Post subject: |
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LOL your not going to see me get better at it either...
Through, threw, throw, etc. There all the same to me, so to simply I just use "through" all the time because its more consistent. You got to admit the English language is pretty jacked. You always got rules braking other rules, one damn word can be spelled five different ways, etc. I heard in Mexico they only take Spanish classes once in there lifes and thats like kindergarden (rag on me for possilby spelling that word wrong, lol) |
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| sgort87 |
| Posted: 03/23/2006 0:53 AM Post subject: |
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| SteamRoller |
| Posted: 04/14/2006 23:48 PM Post subject: |
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HOW DO I USE ENGLISH!?!??!?!?!11!1!elventyone
I'm an idiot |
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| feral_patriot |
| Posted: 04/15/2006 0:50 AM Post subject: |
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AAAARRRGGH!!
Now we see why there is such a large segment of the populace home-shooling their children.
It doesn't matter if the grammatical errors are made here, there or any where;the simple fact remains that even in spite of "No Child L eft (tsk) Behind" America's children are being actively dumbed down just to get the Federal $$$. Ebonics is destroying our country because Ah iz impotent and youse should jist haer me cuz ahm a good fella.
I am a General Contractor... and I am absolutely disgusted that there are so many young people who don't know grammar,how to count back money,how to simply think about the big picture..."a pebble being cast in a pond and the rippling effect there-after..."
We have home schooled all of our children.they are polite,they get along well with others, they speak well, can carry on a conversation and know what they're saying. I,too,have noticed the seemingly high rate of illiteracy in the forums...just about everywhere. My oldest step-daughter when tested by our school district at the beginning of what would have been her 'junior' year achieved grade levels ranging from 14.3 to 18.6. Kids today are just as intelligent as their grandparents were - the question is whether or not the education system will teach them how to think, so they can be the same level citizen our parents were/are. JMO. |
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| pimpmann22 |
| Posted: 04/15/2006 18:09 PM Post subject: |
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Although I started this topic to be about grammar, ill be the hypocritical one and wonder off the subject...
Im a 15 year old Sophmore attending high school, and Ill tell you why the school system sucks:
School is supposed to prepare you for the "real world", meanwhile you dont due such. Such as my Algebra 2 class, Im taught all these formulas and the first day I walked in there I was handed a double sided paper listing all of this and last years assignments. Everyday im having forumlas jammed down my throat, but never told were to apply these formulas.
Like so many things in life I think we woud due are selfs some good if we simply stepped back and tryed to comprehand why we set out to do certain things. Take schools for example, which are supposed to teach you things for the "real world". Schools today are just a large baby sitting facility and you are expected to do work to keep you busy. The thing I find the most alarming is the fact that I learn more about issues pertaining to the "real world" in my non-core classes. |
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| Shrimphead |
| Posted: 04/15/2006 22:18 PM Post subject: |
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| Pimp, I'm also in Alg 2 and my teacher usually does tell us where it applies in life. It's really nice to know, but also you'll use the stuff up in higher math like calculus I think, which is used all the time in engineering. I disagree with you on the whole school babysitting crap. I think that when kids have good attidudes, they can learn a lot and use it in their lives even now. |
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| pimpmann22 |
| Posted: 04/15/2006 23:48 PM Post subject: |
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I give props to my Geometery teacher for teaching were the math applys and can be used. I dont know how to really explain it, but when your taught where you can use something its alot easier to retain.
As far as babysitting goes. Why do they have retarded people at school that can even do simple multiplication? Im a peer student, and ill be honest, these kids arent going anywhere. My moms work offers temp jobs for the SPED class, most these kids have been so babied when she asked a ~300lbs SPED student to help her sweep the floor he started to cry.
They also require PE class for everyone. People like me that are athletic and workout every single day have to take the class. Meanwhile the FAT kids get a medical realese slip and get out of the class. I tryed talking to a counsler to see if I could get out of PE because it was making me tired for my weight training class, and not allowing me to get my full workout. No, I cant do that.
Why am I charged 2$ everytime I sluff a class? Sounds like a money making scheme rather then accomplishing anything.
And last of all... Why do the retard kids that are going no-where in the future get 1 on 1 attention, meanwhile fully capable people such as I get 1 to 30 attention? |
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| Shrimphead |
| Posted: 04/16/2006 0:15 AM Post subject: |
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| Holy crap pimp you just pressed too many of my buttons!!!!!!!!! I have two little sister who are mentally disabled and I don't appreciate you giving kids like that (who it's not their fault, their parents stupid sex cells didn't split right and then they are disabled or other random reasons that have nothing to do with them) crap. They do benefit from going to school. They learn, they just learn at a slow pace. I know a lady with down syndrome (she's probably in her 20's or 30s), who if not for her physical features, you would confuse her for a non-disabled person. She functions wonderfully, she has a job, and contributes to society. About the disabled person who cried when asked to sleep a floor, there are kids at my school who are fine and normal but would still whine about doing that and throw a fit. You can't say that disabled kids can't go anywhere. My little baby sister with down syndrome learns words in sign language with my mom and some teachers that she's had in the past. I'm surprised at how well she learns and uses them. She picks up on things quickly. Now, about the overweight disabled person brought up. It's another thing that is more common with down syndrome. Don't go saying rude things about them when they have no control. The special ed kids get 1 on 1 because they need it and you don't. They won't learn anything in a big class. Also, you can't tell me that you would rather sit in a room with one other teacher for 6 hours a day and learn that way. About the p.e deal, that's not the way it works at my school. I agree with you that your school should change how that works. Also the sluff thing, it's not like that at my school, so I don't know how I feel about it. |
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| pimpmann22 |
| Posted: 04/16/2006 0:55 AM Post subject: |
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Let me give your argument a boost. What your trying to say is that people shouldnt be discrimanted for things they were born with and have no control over.
Well in response I would say that these people simply have a "learning disability", and yea maybe one outta 50 will be able to compete with a average student does that mean we should waste 1 on 1 attention for these students when it could be used elsewhere teaching the "normal" 1 to 30?
I once peer tutored a Senior SPED student and he couldnt even read a clock. After a quarter I managed to get him to read the basic of the clock and he could recognize the 15 min incruments. By the end of the next quarter he was able recongnize the increments of 5. I took me a few days in kindergarten to learn what he learned in a semister as a Senior. Where are these skill of reconizing the minutes in increments of 5 get him?
My mom who became very frusterated at me after telling her my opion on SPED students, admits that they are very ill displined and are hard to get to work because explaining takes way to long.
I wasnt using his weight in a way to humilate him, rather to point that this is one of the least likely people you would see to cry. Im not sure, but I dont think he had down syndrome, I do know has very poor hearing.
"The special ed kids get 1 on 1 because they need it and you don't."
Thats why Im frequently waiting for my teacher to come over and help me out with a problem. Call me selfish, but I see a teachers time better spent teaching a student rather complex math compared to teaching a student single and double diget adding.
"They won't learn anything in a big class."
What a suprise, neither do I!!!
By any means I dont hate them, I find many of these kids funny, due to there lack of intellgence they fail to comprehend insults and because of there child-like energy it is fun to talk to them. |
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| boilingleadbath |
| Posted: 04/17/2006 1:03 AM Post subject: |
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Shrimphead, if you are going to respond to an off-topic response in a topic on grammar, format your damn text.
No, you are not excepted just because you where ranting.
Shrimphead, he was talking about mentaly disabled persons. Said 20-30 year old lady doesn't count.
I'm agreeing (more or less) with all of the above posters in that our current school system is poorly set up. Which is why I signed the seperation of school and state petition.
Shrimphead, almost everybody benifits from smaller class sizes, not just the mentaly retarded.
Shrimphead, I don't care why the person is fat - genetic/viral/bacterial/choise, depending appon what therories/hypothesies pan out - if they are capable of excersise, they should not be exempt.
Pimpmann, sorry to hear that you are frustrated with the required PE class, but state (or is it federal?) law is state/federal law...
Perhaps you could ask your PE instructor if you could work out during the PE period? Surely a school the size of yours has such facilities.
As to my opinion of mental retards... I think we spend way too much effort on teaching them.
Yeah, that's an incompleate statment. I offer no sugestions of what to do with them beyond saying that I don't support soap factories. |
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| Shrimphead |
| Posted: 04/17/2006 10:18 AM Post subject: |
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The said 20-30 year old lady was mentally disabled. It's called down syndrome!
The overweight issue wasn't about the people getting out of p.e. class. Pimpmann mentioned an overweight disabled person and the way he did so sounded offensive. |
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