Are schools still teaching grammar? On this site alone - the posts are appalling - and I'm not talkin' about

For many years, secondary education thought kids would "pick it up." But, finally they are realizing that the grammar, or lack of, kids use is getting worse not better. Many high schools are beginning to teach it again. I'm glad of it, too. For me, the lack of writing skills and the poor use of grammar upsets me the most when demonstrated by adults. If you are going to post Q and A on a public site, then learn the proper use of punctuation and spelling. This site has a spell check option, use it! I often can't bear to read q's and a's when they are so poorly written that I have to decipher the meaning.

In our English classes, we only study literature and writing. Grammar has been put on the back burner. Grammar is only a problem if you can't understand what someone is saying (and I have encountered posts with such bad grammar that they are unintelligible), but it sure gets annoying if nobody can bother to capitalize the beginning of a sentence or something. I am a rather educated person, want to seem credible, and don't want to annoy all the other educated people on this site, so I try to use good grammar.

Apparently the kiddies think it's cool to have bad grammar. Or something. Who knows. Kids will do stupid things. Maybe there's something in the water. How else could one explain, for example, the use of "lol" (laughing out loud) as a punctuation mark at the end of every sentence, even when the sentence isn't meant to invoke laughter? That sure as hell ain't normal.

Some of that comes from IM. The way they teach kids to read now is horrible. I always spell check before I submit.

I don't know what the schools are teaching, but I agree there is bad grammar and the spellings are unbelievable. Use spell check!