I once asked a group of "low-track" high schoolers to tell me---in
writing---about their experiences with English language arts through their eleven years
of schooling. One student wrote, "There isn't enough variety for how there
is to learn it. We keep doing the same thing too much." When I later asked
him what "it" meant, he answered in one word: "Grammar."
This little experiment would have taken place in the early 80s in a district
that never left Warriner's textbooks. Lest we forget, the 1977 edition of
that series broke all its previous sales records.
Ed Schuster
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