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I have to admit that proper grammar is NOT being as stressed in schools as it used to be. The current trend is to emphasize thought processes and ideas over technicalities. I'm not saying it is corrrect, but it is happening. Not that all grammar rules are ignored, but mistakes are overlooked more.
In my last school we were having to correct teachers who told their students NOT to indent paragraphs, but to skip a line instead. And this was on the state standardized test for NCLB (if you don't know what that is then count yourself lucky, schools in the US live and die by it). Rules for the test state to not put a title, or skip lines, but these students would put a title, skip several lines and then skip lines between paragraphs. Since they only have one page front and back, this makes it look like they are killing space to look like they have written more. No, the teachers that told them this weren't from our area, but another area of the state.
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