Someone said:
And I must say we did expect all students to know something about
grammar, for years and years, until the sixties and seventies and
"language arts should be creative and fun every minute." Has
something changed in students that now they can't learn grammatical
rules now, when they did up to the mid-sixties?

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This just isn't true. During my first twelve years of school, grammar was
either taught poorly or not at all. There was little attempt to make sure
students understood it. Mostly it was rushed through or ignored. This was
between 1930 and 1948. In college, it was merely assumed that you had
grammar earlier, but most students had not gotten any clear understanding
of it. My earliest understandings came in a graduate-level class, and most
of the students in that class were getting their first clear taste of
grammar as well. It may have gotten worse in the 60s, but it wasn't good in
the 30s, 40s, or 50s either.

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