More scary than funny. Well, still funny.

As much fun as it is to mock my students' little stupid comments and what not, sometimes what I see really kind of scares me.

I'm grading journal entries from my Juniors, and some of the writing I see reminds me more of my 7 year old niece than what a 16 year old should be writing. For example, in response to the topic asking how America has changed since the early explorers, and whether these changes were good or not, I got this:

"It has charge alot. There are more jobs. There is more house. We have alot more techdogy. Like computer vidoes game .t.v. The charge are good. We have alot more medicates to help people get better. If we didn't have medics alot of people would died. There would be lose people in the world."

Don't get me wrong, a part of me laughs my ass off when I read this shit. But another part of me can't help but wonder how the fuck the kid got all the way to Junior English and writes like that. This isn't one of my special ed kids, either. At least for them, I understand. This kid is "normal" by educational standards, and there are more like that. Here's another entry, in response to my asking what hardships the Pilgrims faced. (We had just read about how they had had some ship problems on the way the day before, so that's why there are ship references.)

"Because they ship are built very good. they will brake easly. I would have been bad but again good. The bad is cause people was trying to kill them. They went to missortia in later December. It was freeze and they trying to build houses."

I'm not sure what "missortia" is, though I suppose by default it equals "Massachusetts" since that's where the Pilgrims landed and all. Still, the urge to gouge out my eyes with a spoon is strong. And I still have about 40 more journals to read this weekend. Just wait until we get to my seniors' personal statements. The mockery will never end, I'm sure. Don't worry, I'll continue to leave off names, and gender where possible, to protect the functionally retarded.