You’re or your fault?

Dedicated: A teacher teaching students in a language class. — filepic

I WAS going to start off this week’s column by blaming the public education system for students’ poor English. I was going to repeat what a lot of people have been saying for a very long time.

You know the gist of the argument: The Government’s flip-flop over how to teach English has resulted in so many not knowing the difference between “your” and “you’re” “its and it’s”. The lousy system (that forces students to do too many subjects, including unnecessary ones like Moral Studies has already led to a generation of less-than-stellar university graduates and teachers. Students these days waste their time rote learning — so on and so forth.