Very good, it certainly has drawn attention to the issue.
If more bothered to use punctuation (oh oh pedantic) then other people would understand what the others are saying and not get all of this mix up of what they meant or didn't mean, because they didn't use a comma when necessary.
If education was attended regularly in the younger years then there would not be so many old f4rts on here whinging that punctuation and grammar were not up to scratch!!
Sorry malibu- sioux, I'm a bit pished, are you meaning that parents keep kids off school a lot? Sorry if I've misunderstood.
Personally I blame the PC Brigade, who have made it impossible for teachers to teach because children as young as 8 know 'their rights' and their parents parade into school like vigilanties because their child was told off for misbehaving.
Sorry for being serious for a mo bloaterbum, great name btw!
i agree totally, i run courses on letter writing (job applications) and I'm horrified. i also give feedback on job application forms and im very harsh because at the end of the day, i would bin about 95% of them. i do however appreciate the fact that it's not seemed as important these days...call me old fashioned deary's!!!