Never in my life have I heard of creative spelling…ever.
Fortunately I am able to say that I grew up in an elementary school that
stressed the importance of strong spelling and reading skills. I’ve always
thought of myself as a strong speller and I honestly cannot imagine someone
allowing me to misspell stuff to avoid hurting my feelings. I’m not even a
teacher and I find that insulting to society. Sometimes the amount of ignorance
floating around in this world creates this ridiculous fear within me that it
might someday become contagious. I hope in all honesty that some concerned
parent or community member stands up and calls these people out. I find the
whole concept of “creative spelling” utterly stupid. And the last thing this world needs is more stupid
people. I feel like there should be some kind of more rigorous and required
list of content (vocabulary and reading skills) that needs to be enforced in
primary schools. Without literacy our world would basically fall apart and I’m
not sure that I am ok with that. And really, if GOOGLE even disagrees with the
educational benefits of inventive spelling…maybe you should just stop. Just say
no. Say no to stupid.
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