I just got back from a showing of the movie Race to Nowhere.  In the 
movie someone asserts that employers do not want employees who know how 
to use semicolons.  Employers do want employees who know how the think. 

The implication seemed to me to be that teachers should not teach about 
semicolons because that might take away time from thinking skills.  
Maybe I'm overreacting. 

Anyway... my question is what do employers want employees to know about 
grammar?  I'm going to guess that the answers from this list will be 
different from the people in the movie I just saw. 

I'm also interested in the why behind what employees should know.  For 
example, if you think employees should know how to use semicolons, why?
Jan

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