The Pitfalls of Language Arrogance

The Pitfalls of Language Arrogance

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a follow-up to We Expect Less Of You, wherein I opine on a university’s decision to de-emphasize good grammar and spelling. My father had an employee, decades back, who worked crazy hours at his restaurant. The man, whose...
We Expect Less Of You

We Expect Less Of You

The University of Hull, a school on the north-central eastern shore of England, raised a bit of a kerfuffle with a policy declaration that “[s]tudents studying at the University of Hull will not be marked down for poor spelling, grammar and punctuation in exams...
Racists and Murderers

Racists and Murderers

“The school can ask you to leave for any reason,” said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school. “Then you’ll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you’ll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a...