The Last Bastion

I hate it when people join an rp without any ability in the English language. I mean, I'm definitely not perfect, but man, it bugs me when somebody shows up with one of these.

I RUNNED

Next post...

HLO?

Next post...

U THER

Oh man, that bugs the crap out of me and I just wanted to rant a little bit. Thank you for listening.

I wonder, how do people like that graduate high school? 'Cause a lot of that is stuff I know adults--with English as their first language--do via my friend's rants. It's sort of depressing, really.

I think the bar's set low enough in some schools that consistently showing up and not physically assaulting anyone, can get someone far.

Dun worry, if my lickle dragon Tylona ever has Draclings, you guys are at the top of the waiting list.

Dratted low standards. Hooray for Grammar/Spelling Nazis! And Tylona, of course.

You know what's causing it though, right? It's the stupid No Child Left Behind crap. NCLB turned schools into babysitting services. Seriously. The ones that want to excel have to go to college to learn something, so colleges are dropping their standards so high school students can understand. I have a physics class that a two year old can pass because of this crap. I mean, seriously.

Is your dragon laying eggs soon? We need to fix this with a little "fire" power.

Dragonizer wrote:Dratted low standards. Hooray for Grammar/Spelling Nazis! And Tylona, of course.

Quoted For Truth.

Also, I apologize for my lack of activity. T_T I got interrupted by RL in the middle of a post about 3 weeks ago and that somehow killed my motivation. I promise to be much more active now!
Regarding education standards: I'm just glad I live in Canada.

Man, let me move there.

Well, I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. As soon as the American economy finishes its apocalyptic swirl down the drain, Canada won't be far behind. Stupid codependency.

You got that right.

To get back on topic, this sums up a related problem. Maybe not as severe as the example you gave in the first post, but certainly annoying.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... lesOfSatin
It's quite amusing to read, too, and if you ever come across someone blatantly guilty of Rogue Angles of Satin, link them to that article, and tell them to read ALL the examples. =X

Best... Article... Ever... Oh, how many of those I've seen...

My gosh. TvTropes just sucked up two hours of my life from that link.

How the heck does it DO that?

Magical words, Lifon. Magical words.

Oh. I was going to write it off as a Communist plot.

ZephyrSkye wrote:You know what's causing it though, right? It's the stupid No Child Left Behind crap. NCLB turned schools into babysitting services. Seriously. The ones that want to excel have to go to college to learn something, so colleges are dropping their standards so high school students can understand. I have a physics class that a two year old can pass because of this crap. I mean, seriously.

Is your dragon laying eggs soon? We need to fix this with a little "fire" power.

As the son of a teacher, you would not believe the amount of bitching I have heard about NCLB.

As an actually intelligent individual, you would not believe how fucking bored I have been in every class I have ever been in in my entire life due to schools no longer being able to teach children based on what they can learn.