Another Blow

Fact: in 3rd grade language arts, we began class by correcting the capitalization, punctuation, and other syntactical errors in a sentence written on the chalk board.

Fact: the 7th graders I'm observing are doing the same thing... and struggle.

I initially justified the activity itself as test prep. CRTs and PASS tests use that format, so why not practice?

Then I noticed they forgot to add an apostrophe here, and an -es suffix there.

Unbelievable.

America, I salute you for your SmartBoards, but not much else.