Could we please start funding the humanities again? It's not just that we're losing the ability to read, we're losing the understanding of what reading even is
As a middle school English teacher the rise of digital reading curricula brings genuine despair. I outsource a lot of basic grammar instruction to an online program, but for reading I insist on whole paper books. There’s no substitute if you genuinely value reading as a practice.
Aaaiiieeee
And that is the mess I got to fix when I was teaching— no, a comma is not a breath pause, it has 5 functional uses.
And the apostrophe
And homonyms
High school, yeah a mess, but
College Freshmen who can’t punctuate are agony
