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kimmylavin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 09:57 PM
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42. But that's not literacy.
I work at a theater, with lots of kids.
We had a theft incident.
We asked the girl who had her iPod stolen to write out a report of what she thought happened.
She was asked to gather her thoughts, and then send an email from home.

It was appalling.
She included each filler someone would use in conversation (um, yeah, ya, like, you know, ya know, gonna), the punctuation seemed to be arbitrary, the formatting was absent (one block of text for what should have been at least three paragraphs), the spelling rendered some words unrecognizable, fully one quarter of the words used were texting shortcuts, and in the end, it made no sense at all.

She was 17.
Heading to college.
I would like to think she's in for a shock, but since I went to college with people who couldn't write a simple sentence (let alone an essay), I'm not holding my breath.
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