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    Pupils are not marked down because of bad grammar, but they should be. "The rot thus extends from top to bottom in education, from bureaucrats to schools." No comments have so far been submitted. Full Article at Daily Mail - UK
    The rot thus extends from top to bottom in education, from bureaucrats to schools.
    SOURCE: Daily Mail - UK 28 months ago
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Students who have been put to shame over their spelling
  1. There is not enough emphasis on teaching children how to speak and write properly. Public schools are the only ones still pretty good at this.
    SOURCE: Daily Mail - UK 28 months ago
  2. It initats a undisired nonspecific response in mamammals.
    SOURCE: Daily Mail - UK 28 months ago
  3. All these students have good or excellent A-levels or their equivalents.
    SOURCE: Daily Mail - UK 28 months ago
  4. There was little evidence of students being taught the relevant rules at school, or of the students having been corrected for obvious and frequent errors. Many did not even regard these errors as important.
    SOURCE: Daily Mail - UK 28 months ago

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