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No Zeros
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Bob Layton @ 3 AM
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No Zeros
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6/5/2012 3:42:00 AM
A university professor emails to say a high school No-Zero policy brings into question just how well some students are prepared for university. He’s seeing students who lack analytical, research and writing skills. I can relate. I was an adult at the U of A with a class of students just out of High School. When the Prof came in with the first essays, she threw them on the floor and told the shocked students to get down and find their miserable excuse for a writing assignment. There were tears as she told them their teachers had not prepared them for university. I’m hearing from employers both in and out of the broadcasting business, who talk about the number of grads who apply for a first job who have trouble writing a sentence, can’t spell, and seem to think an apostrophe is just thrown in at random before the letter ...
Bob Layton
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