The Importence of Spelling

               Have you guys read the artical about schools not correcting spelling? What is up with that! A school system in Los Angeles is expirementing with a new teaching technique where they do not correct spelling mistakes until late eighth grade. Their rational behind this method is that not correcting mistakes will maintain the moral of the students and give them more confidence. This confidence, in theory, will invigerate the students to learn and a bunch more bolony. I think this is rediculous. That late in ones educational career spelling becomes a habit. And how much confidence will be lost over mispelled words? It won't hurt to try but don't expect inteligent, literate students to come from this program. 

               I am going to try to give an example of how this might backfire, by playing out an example of how I might have been effected by this program, given that I can't spell dissapear or embarass correctly without spell check in the first place. Now you may (or may not) have noticed my amateur spelling throughout this blog. I have counted at least 10 common spelling (or homophone) mistakes made throughout this blog. These mistakes would be easily confused and not neccesarily go against current English phonnetic rules. A student graduating from this school system would likely continue to write like this the rest of there lives. Nobody wants to read or critique work like this. It's EMBARRASSING (nailed it). Lets stop this before it starts.