Re: French teachers salary

Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:
>
> > What /you/ might do does not count.
>
> Why not? I actually work for a living and live on my own, unlike your
> students, so I know how much handwriting is necessary in real life ...
> and it's not much.

Because there are plenty of people who handwrite a lot as part of their
work. Me, for example.

> > What's important is the fact that
> > those pupils never concentrate enough when writing, are totally careless
> > when writing papers, and have terrible spelling and grammar
> > difficulties.
>
> If you aren't allowed to fail a student for such problems, what can
> you expect?


Failing the students will bring nothing. It wouldn't do any good to
release them into the vast universe and rub our hands as we rejected a
problem. It's our mission as teachers to give them good education,
however, since the dime devoted to French grammar and spelling at
elementary school has _dramatically_ plummeted to a ridiculous 2 hours a
week, we have a hige work to do.

> > The aim of school is not to yield to pressure from the kids because the
> > see no /necessity/ in writing.
> >
> > Letting someone out of school without enough written command of his own
> > language is a huge mistake, and I fear we shall pay for it.
>
> We already are. It has been a problem for decades. Part of the
> reason why kids write poorly is that their parents and grandparents
> write poorly as well.

I don't agree for many reasons. Besides, being confident _as you are_
that handwriting is a thing of the past is the first step to acceptation
of illiteracy. You are not very coherent.

Typing is NOT writing.
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