Once again, why I hate the state of American education.

[Epitome]

Dude that sucks, our curriculum dictates we must study 4 classic poets, a Shakespearian work , 2 novels and learn essay composition, writing styles, lol thats just in two years. Not to sound too "bash the Americans" but your English is atrocious.

Aluminium - AH-LU-MIN-I-UM NOT AL-LU-MI-NUM <<< tip of the iceberg


EDIT: In my rush to be a grammer nazi I myself made many grammatical errors including confusing the mispronounciation of the word I was bitching about in the first place, doh!

 

[azukar]

our curriculim dictates
a shakespearian work
learn essay compostion
thats just in two years.
"bash the americans" but your english is atrocious.

Aluminum - AH-LU-MI-NUM NOT AH-LU_MIN_I_UM <<< tip of the iceberg

CurriculUm. Shakespearian (with a capital letter). Composition (not compostion, unless you were going for dry wit, in which case nice one ). That's (with an apostrophe). American; English (also need capitals). Not to sound like I'm bashing you, but your English needs some polish too

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Dude that sucks, our curriculim dictates we must study 4 classic poets, a shakespearian work , 2 novels and learn essay compostion, writing styles, lol thats just in two years. Not to sound too "bash the americans" but your english is atrocious.

Aluminum - AH-LU-MI-NUM NOT AH-LU_MIN_I_UM <<< tip of the iceberg

I didn't really have many complaints in any of my other classes, mostly because I took advanced everything else usually. Any other "bad" classes came down to the teacher. It's just English I had a real problem with. Also, we 'Mer'cans don't say aluminium. I think that's a few British. Don't quote me on that though. And sorry if you are British and that is not the case.

 

[Aytasammich(theoriginal)]

Because I was a tad...uh, distracted...during years 7-9, I am stuck in the mixed classes instead of the top. So I have a curious situation, wherin I will submit various assignments, get marks that fit in with the top class, and then we all sit down and watch The Castle instead of reading Hamlet.
To be sure, I deserve such placement, It's just that the level of education if you are not in the top band over here is shocking.

 

[Epitome]

Dude that sucks, our curriculim dictates we must study 4 classic poets, a shakespearian work , 2 novels and learn essay compostion, writing styles, lol thats just in two years. Not to sound too "bash the americans" but your english is atrocious.

Aluminum - AH-LU-MI-NUM NOT AH-LU_MIN_I_UM <<< tip of the iceberg

I didn't really have many complaints in any of my other classes, mostly because I took advanced everything else usually. Any other "bad" classes came down to the teacher. It's just English I had a real problem with. Also, we 'Mer'cans don't say aluminium. I think that's a few British. Don't quote me on that though. And sorry if you are British and that is not the case.

Damn i screwed that up the first time, I am Irish btw and it is correctly pronounced al-u-min-i-um

our curriculim dictates
a shakespearian work
learn essay compostion
thats just in two years.
"bash the americans" but your english is atrocious.

Aluminum - AH-LU-MI-NUM NOT AH-LU_MIN_I_UM <<< tip of the iceberg

CurriculUm. Shakespearian (with a capital letter). Composition (not compostion, unless you were going for dry wit, in which case nice one ). That's (with an apostrophe). American; English (also need capitals). Not to sound like I'm bashing you, but your English needs some polish too

My English is perfect, my typing leaves much to be desired.. Fixed most of it up

 

[Najos]

Don't mean to grammar nazi, but I'm pretty sure the word is "disoriented" not "disorientated."
A lot of people get mixed up because of the difference between the adjective disoriented, and the noun "disorientation."

But seriously, wow. Just Frankenstein? God I've been lucky.

Nah, disorientated is a word. Sort of. I can't recall ever hearing or seeing it used by an American, but I know I've seen it on BBC a few times. Which, according to most Brits, makes it a fucking word.

As for aluminum or aluminium, well, Firefox just spell checked aluminium.

Furthermore, Epitome, numbers should be spelled out unless they are of a value of 10 or greater. Just another thing for you to fix with your, uh, bad typing...

 

[Inco]

Ouch, i feel sorry for you.
I am glad that i got choose 'advanced english' in which we learned an abundance of ways to interpret texts.
We left the people who didn't want to interpret for reasons of choice or inability in standard.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

Macbeth, King Lear, Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing were the plays we did (well, there were some non-Shakespearian ones). I recall Gulliver's Travels, Anthills of the Savannah and, possibly, though I can't be sure....no, can't remember anything else aside from that. So, yeah, I had a good education.

 

[Doug]

Am I the only one who thinks Shakespear plays are overhyped in this day and age? I mean, sure, in this day, everything was in context and made sense. But these days, half of the references make little to no sense, even if you decode the ole' English. I would have prefered to read Frankstein when I was in school, myself. Ok, MacBeth was good, but still not fun to read.

 

[Doug]

Aluminium - AH-LU-MIN-I-UM NOT AL-LU-MI-NUM <<< tip of the iceberg

DAMN STRAIGHT!

Edit: Also, Colour, Centre, and Armour, NOT Color, Center, Armor.

 

[InsertWittyName]

I had to prove to my 11th grade English teacher that disorientated was a word. Sad day...

After that, he differed to my vocabulary in times of duress.

surely you mean "deferred", boffin boy

Edit: ninja'd....
yeah, OT, Im an ausfag, so my school system is fairly adequate. I also go to a semi private school (kinda complicated) so its even better. read probably half of shakespeare n shit, yo.

By semi private school are you suggesting selective school? (im an ausfag too).

 

[InsertWittyName]

As for aluminum or aluminium, well, Firefox just spell checked aluminium.

Don't trust to heavily on firefox's spell check, sometimes it recommends me to use upper class english a lot of the time which would just make me look like a prick half the time.

 

[bjj hero]

I guess I was lucky to study English language and English Lit.

I've always read but it is a challenge for some people, it takes patience. I feel people growing up with the internet are getting too used to google, blogs etc and can find it difficult to read lengthy text.

I'm not saying all, but probably those who only communicate in text speak.

 

[Amnestic]

English Private School. I had to put up with Christian rhetoric for the ~6 years I realised I didn't actually believe in God (with an extra ~8 preceeding that where I was under the impression I did) but they set me up with one hell of an education.

There's a lack of Lord of the Flies being mentioned here ;< Seriously, no one else studied that at GCSE (14/15 years of age) level?

 

[Doug]

English Private School. I had to put up with Christian rhetoric for the ~6 years I realised I didn't actually believe in God (with an extra ~8 preceeding that where I was under the impression I did) but they set me up with one hell of an education.

There's a lack of Lord of the Flies being mentioned here ;< Seriously, no one else studied that at GCSE (14/15 years of age) level?

Not inside a private school, no. We had to make do with Thunder and Lightnings [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thunder-Lightnings-Puffin-Books-Mark/dp/0140310630] - but then again, I was in the shit English class, which was annoying as I was in the upper science and maths classes.

 

[James Cassidy]

Yes, school is by far no real place to learn anything. In fact, I bet you an obscene amount of money that some of the stuff that is taught to you...is false or extremely exaggerated.

Also one thing I noticed while in my high school years. (Please note: I am not being racist, just point out the facts.)

Whenever I get a white teacher, we learn about Shakespeare. When I get a black teacher, we learn nothing, but African slavery stories. Now I don;t mind reading up on history, but I know more stories that can enhance my reading skills and still be interesting.

I also get called on when using British spelling and not American. I always spell it "realise" with an "s." It's not wrong, just different from "realize" as Americans write it. Yet I still get counted off for "spell-check."

What I hate most of all, and this is in every school, is that there are some teachers who will purposely teach you the wrong thing just to prove that you can follow orders like a Nazi. If the sky is blue and they say the sky is green, I have to put the sky is green or else I get counted off. It's like I can never win because each teacher I come across has a different standard than the previous one.

Tired of this crap. I have to say not all teacher are bad and I did have some good ones who taught me a lot and some who I had to school them.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

English Private School. I had to put up with Christian rhetoric for the ~6 years I realised I didn't actually believe in God (with an extra ~8 preceeding that where I was under the impression I did) but they set me up with one hell of an education.

There's a lack of Lord of the Flies being mentioned here ;< Seriously, no one else studied that at GCSE (14/15 years of age) level?

We did in an English public school. It's a good book, but I found that reading books in class makes them far less enjoyable.

In the uk there's a different set of courses for primary school teachers to secondary school teachers, so you don't get people who were too crap to work at a secondary school in primary schools (mostly).

 

[xXDoctor OctagonapusXx]

Alas, this is not so much a problem about the teachers at my school but the other students below my level, which is made up of a lot of dumbasses, who call me a "nerd" because I read books and am smarter than them. We need better teachers at our school so they learn the art of not being a dumbass.
But it is an public school so there's not much chance of anything I wish for happening. The teachers aren't bad though, they're smart but they just give up if a student so much says a word back to them.

 

[Manbro]

I'm a bit disheartened with the Australian school system as well. Half the kids can't even spell simple fucking words; I just get the feeling the system has failed them.