What's up with the spelling nowadays?

Well, I won't have to worry about competing with them for jobs. Clear communication and professionalism is very important in the workplace.

The issues with poor spelling and poor writing overall isn't just in schools. Now employers are dealing with it. I work with entry level employees who are all high school graduates. Many can't write a decent paragraph without a computer and even with a computer most have problems writing a simple business letter.

This tells me that our local government schools are just pushing the students through the system. I see a big difference when we get applicants who went to private schools or were home schooled.

It isn't just spelling and punctuation. They are having a tough time with simple math. Adding and subtracting fractions, fraction to decimal conversion and even reading a tape measure are problems.

I don't think that they are dumb and they are only as lazy as we allow them to be. They are definitely undereducated. It seems as though we keep lowering our standards more and more each year.

i personally learned how to type using social networks and chats, and often used abbreviations like lol and g2g.

Any teacher i had in high school made it very clear that no such abbreviations were acceptable and if we handed in a paper using them we had to re write the entire thing.

I have since grown out of using most of them and I think most kids do. I do agree that they are getting harder to understand, mostly because kids are always coming up with new ones.

I think the point to using them (for me anyway) is convenience. getting across what you wanted to say quickly. Though really typing, " I hate that" takes no longer than " i h8 that"

kids are weird.

Kids don't know how to separate formal from informal. I don't think its wrong to abbreviate during texting but they are not learning--nor do they think it's important--to learn the formal way of doing things.

Ha wer jst fastr n mor advanced than y'all b'n p-911 ... Cant hlp it is we pasd u up lol but its gr8t ttyl o nvm u dont get it.. Btw I txt my dad @ wrk to say lv u n hes like huh..

because everyone wants to write fast and nowadays it's just "i cant spell so what" and its just because we are lazy that we have this internet speak

it's a combination of that generation being stupid and lazy, and the influence of the internet and "internet speak"

We're kids

get over and if we're so dumb how come u cant read it?