I never said it wasn't the girls' fault for getting pregnant. I just said that not all of the blame should solely be placed on them and if there is such a pervasive problem in this school, more education from parents and the school needs to be addressed as well as the attitudes of the teens toward pregnancy. This is not a black and white issue, and just because I can sympathize with their plight, doesn't mean I empathize and find these girls blameless. And I still think, whether they be 12 or a college professor, people should be held to a standard of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. If you own or have access to a computer and a dictionary (which you do because of the internet), there is no excuse for such poor expression of language. I agree that I don't know who's on the other end of the post or their education levels, but I do feel that you can coherently post a properly structured sentence by the time you are 10ish. Besides, there's spell-check in the comment reply and if nobody corrects others how are they going to learn to be more conscientious about this issue?
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I never said it wasn't the girls' fault for getting pregnant. I just said that not all of the blame should solely be placed on them and if there is such a pervasive problem in this school, more education from parents and the school needs to be addressed as well as the attitudes of the teens toward pregnancy. This is not a black and white issue, and just because I can sympathize with their plight, doesn't mean I empathize and find these girls blameless. And I still think, whether they be 12 or a college professor, people should be held to a standard of grammar, spelling, and punctuation. If you own or have access to a computer and a dictionary (which you do because of the internet), there is no excuse for such poor expression of language. I agree that I don't know who's on the other end of the post or their education levels, but I do feel that you can coherently post a properly structured sentence by the time you are 10ish. Besides, there's spell-check in the comment reply and if nobody corrects others how are they going to learn to be more conscientious about this issue?
February 1, 2010 - 10:17amThis Comment
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