Truthfully, I really don't care how the world looks at anything. Some of my happiest childhood memories were going trick or treating one night a year. I grew up a mile outside of Detroit and there were literally hundreds of homes one after another. Used to stay out for hours. It was awesome. No regrets whatsoever.
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Naturally, being 66 years old needless to say that I don't go trick or treating anymore. Took my daughter a few times when she was growing up. When I was growing up usually kids were basically without adult supervision. Too dangerous now, got to keep an eye on the little ones. I loved those verses from Paul. I took them to heart too many years ago.
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Well. I can not say for older people, but for younger people spell check has become such an overused thing. (I'm sure now there are plenty of older folks who rely on spell check two, but for the sake of this conversation, I am talking about younger, school aged persons)
Phonics are not properly taught in schools anymore.
I don't "no" for sure when that started happening.
I remember when I was in grade school they really pushed the "sound it out" method, my kids were experiencing that to; however, as the use of laptops in classrooms increased, the teaching of proper spelling and phonics decreased.
The problem with that is that "their" are so many words that sound the same, but are spelled different, or that have silent letters and sounds.
Another problem with that is for persons with speech delays, or auditory processing issues who say it, but hear it differently than how it's pronounced.
Sometimes, I will start spelling a word thinking "I know it's wrong, but spell check will catch this" and it either doesn't catch it, or tries to give me a word nothing close to what I was trying to spell. Sometimes I am way off and those times I can understand; however, sometimes I am off only by 1 or 2 letters and spell check doesn't pick that up and either doesn't give me suggestions, or gives suggestions nothing remotely close to what I was trying to type.
For people who are delayed in reading/writing/spelling (like my daughter) spell check as a "reliable" source for correcting what one types can actually make problems worse. I noticed my daughter was seeing things "corrected" by spell check, but again it was the wrong word or not even close to what she was looking for. Then because that was what spell check told her, she would start memorizing it as being correct.
Since we started homeschooling, we have had to spend a lot of time unlearning what was "learned" at public school.
And then theirs "speech to text". The school thought since my daughter is delayed in reading/writing/spelling skills that when it came time to write papers speech to text would be a wonderful tool for her to help "get her thoughts out onto paper" problem with that is she has speech delays and often is hard to understand or has many mispronunciations. I don't turn those tools on at home, but one day she tried to and whatever it was she was talking about (before being ready to "type") was picked up by the voice to text (she had turned it on two soon, so it started (attempting) to type our conversation) unfortunately, it was NOTHING close to what she was talking about. She was talking something about a toy dog that "poops and pees, and you teach it tricks", and some other stuff, speech to text put in something about "Pink" "Peaches" and I forget the other words, but it brought up Nintendo's Mario Princess (I guess her name is Peaches or something close)
Sorry, I kind of went off one a mini novel their . Oh, one more thought on this though
I've also noticed that as people come into the USA with their native language, and have to learn English, that (again this goes back to what I first said) several phonics and spelling "rules" are either never taught, or never learned.
Also, as a culture, we have come to rely and accept texting short hand slang (I don't know if there is a word for it.)
LOL
BRB
IDK
IMO
SMH
you know, stuff like that.
So, when it comes to actually knowing how to write out words, well I don't "no" if it's proven, or even factually, but it sure doesn't help in learning proper spelling etc.
But that is just IMO
Phonics are not properly taught in schools anymore.
I don't "no" for sure when that started happening.
I remember when I was in grade school they really pushed the "sound it out" method, my kids were experiencing that to; however, as the use of laptops in classrooms increased, the teaching of proper spelling and phonics decreased.
The problem with that is that "their" are so many words that sound the same, but are spelled different, or that have silent letters and sounds.
Another problem with that is for persons with speech delays, or auditory processing issues who say it, but hear it differently than how it's pronounced.
Sometimes, I will start spelling a word thinking "I know it's wrong, but spell check will catch this" and it either doesn't catch it, or tries to give me a word nothing close to what I was trying to spell. Sometimes I am way off and those times I can understand; however, sometimes I am off only by 1 or 2 letters and spell check doesn't pick that up and either doesn't give me suggestions, or gives suggestions nothing remotely close to what I was trying to type.
For people who are delayed in reading/writing/spelling (like my daughter) spell check as a "reliable" source for correcting what one types can actually make problems worse. I noticed my daughter was seeing things "corrected" by spell check, but again it was the wrong word or not even close to what she was looking for. Then because that was what spell check told her, she would start memorizing it as being correct.
Since we started homeschooling, we have had to spend a lot of time unlearning what was "learned" at public school. And then theirs "speech to text". The school thought since my daughter is delayed in reading/writing/spelling skills that when it came time to write papers speech to text would be a wonderful tool for her to help "get her thoughts out onto paper"
problem with that is she has speech delays and often is hard to understand or has many mispronunciations. I don't turn those tools on at home, but one day she tried to and whatever it was she was talking about (before being ready to "type") was picked up by the voice to text (she had turned it on two soon, so it started (attempting) to type our conversation) unfortunately, it was NOTHING close to what she was talking about. She was talking something about a toy dog that "poops and pees, and you teach it tricks", and some other stuff, speech to text put in something about "Pink" "Peaches" and I forget the other words, but it brought up Nintendo's Mario Princess (I guess her name is Peaches or something close)Sorry, I kind of went off one a mini novel their . Oh, one more thought on this though
I've also noticed that as people come into the USA with their native language, and have to learn English, that (again this goes back to what I first said) several phonics and spelling "rules" are either never taught, or never learned.
Also, as a culture, we have come to rely and accept texting short hand slang (I don't know if there is a word for it.)
LOL
BRB
IDK
IMO
SMH
you know, stuff like that.
So, when it comes to actually knowing how to write out words, well I don't "no" if it's proven, or even factually, but it sure doesn't help in learning proper spelling etc.
But that is just IMO
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see, I don't follow culture slang and had to look that one up.
Still makes no sense to me, even after reading the explanation.
It makes me think of cars, or if going away from car mileage at least makes me think of a persons age or experience. But certainly doesn't make me think it has anything to do with opinions.
Still makes no sense to me, even after reading the explanation.
It makes me think of cars, or if going away from car mileage at least makes me think of a persons age or experience. But certainly doesn't make me think it has anything to do with opinions.
