I Demand A Full Refund

Today, I feel like I should demand a full refund for any of my tax money that went into providing salaries to the English teachers of this state. If my college writing class is any example, our teachers have failed miserably to teach English to their students. Not only do these students fail to put together a coherent paragraph, they cannot follow directions. I am assuming that this is because they cannot READ them.

I believe it is this horrid level of work that has made my college instructor create a class where students have to peer-review all work. She is probably too terrified to sit down and actually correct and edit these papers. I know I nearly have apoplexy every week when I sit down to review my peers' work (and I use the word peer lightly).

My sixth-grade niece can write circles around most of these adult students. So, tell me, where are these middle school and high school English teachers? What are they actually teaching? Perhaps they are using the same approach that my instructor is using, and passing off the work to other students. Where is the actual teaching occurring? These students are supposed to be editing work, based on what they are learning. But they are not learning much, because they can't read. Can you see the vicious cycle?

I would like to take a moment and thank the wonderful English teachers I had in grade school, all the way through high school. I went to inner-city schools until my sophomore year, and then transferred to a high school of about 400 students. Never did I have one of those teachers pass the buck when it came to teaching. We could use a new generation of those teachers today--the ones who actually teach.

For those who were severely short-changed in the reading and writing department, I would demand a full refund!