Thank you for your thought-provoking Ink Out Loud column in the Oct. 25 Record-Bee. I thought it was just me who was bemoaning the lack of proper language, spelling, punctuation, etc., that is so prevalent nowadays. Now, I assume that the letters received by your newspaper are printed exactly as they come to you, right or wrong.

It reflects badly on the teaching habits and lack of class time to properly cover necessary skills, when they have a time watch in hand and announce after the allotted minutes to put away that book and go on to the next subject: no time for questions, extra help, etc.

A friend and former teacher's aide, laid off for lack of funds, told me last year about the teacher handing her a certain term paper to read that was full of errors, misspellings, etc., but the teacher had graded it as an A-.

When my friend questioned the grade when it had been so poorly done, the teacher replied it was the only one handed in for the assignment! Why should that be allowed?

When I was in school, we thought it was funny to write: 2 YYs U R; 2 YYs U B. I C U R 2YYs 4 me. Little did we realize it would be the "in" way to communicate years later.

H.M. Finnie