I'd like to take a moment to thank Mrs. Lucht.
Mrs. Lucht was my 6th through 8th grade English teacher. She had the onerous job of averaging my reading comprehension skills (high) with my spelling scores (low). She would give me this look everyonce in a while that would say, "I know you can do better than this. Make an effort." I may never have put in the effort that she thought I should, but I put in more than I would have without her.
I spend a lot of time playing World of Warcraft and have to deal with people confusing "there", "their" and "they're" all the time, not to mention the text speak. Occasionally I will fall into the pitfall of arguing with these people about their grammar and am met with, "I'm not in school, what does it matter?" I remember feeling that myself in 7th grade.
What I get now is that school isn't the place you go while waiting to get back to your life, school is where you learn life skills, communication being a huge one. The clearer you are in getting your point across, the easier things will be for you.
So, thank you Mrs. Lucht for making me care about how I get my point across.
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