View Full Version : Kids Say the Darndest Video Game History
Gentlegamer
08-04-2007, 09:00 AM
Benj Edwards at vintagecomputing.com has posted actual screen shots from the online reports some elementary school children have written about video game history. It will put a smile on your face!
Link to article (http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/346)
kaedesdisciple
08-04-2007, 10:06 AM
That hurts my soul. I sincerely hope these are not examples of how parents and teachers are allowing their children to write. I understand that they should be allowing creativity, but that should not trump using proper grammar and researching credible sources. If I wrote like this in 4th or 5th grade I would have been given the paper back covered in red ink and told to do it again.
Barbarianoutkast85
08-04-2007, 12:12 PM
I've read it and dont really know what to say other-than, I mean they are only in the fourth and fifth grade. I dont understand why the children were supose to write this "report" anyway. As a professional writer this makes me sad.
hbkprm
08-04-2007, 12:39 PM
that was a bunch of crap
Dayan X
08-04-2007, 12:51 PM
could I possibly have had worser syntax when I was their ages? O_O
If I had a dollar for every time I heard some kid taking a dump on, say, the A5600, I'd invest those bucks in public schooling. It would be the closest thing to funding they've had in years.
MegaDrive20XX
08-04-2007, 01:09 PM
not as bad as hearing about, "the dreamcast didn't sell so well because it cost too much to make" and "Did Super NES kill the Sega Saturn?"
They obviously didn't use AP when writing those.
ssjlance
08-04-2007, 02:42 PM
They obviously didn't use AP when writing those.
lol, funny.
Yeah, I can't believe they are allowed to write that badly. I can tell they did a little research, but the grammar is horrid. They're in 4th and 5th grade, not preschool.
idrougge
08-04-2007, 03:09 PM
Yeah, I can't believe they are allowed to write that badly. I can tell they did a little research, but the grammar is horrid. They're in 4th and 5th grade, not preschool.
Judging by this forum, gaming and spelling doesn't go together very well.
Jorpho
08-04-2007, 03:24 PM
Frankly, Mr. Edwards doesn't seem to do a very good job of presenting the information either. It seems that all his little jabs are derived from the same two or three short paragraphs found on a single website somewhere.
Kid Ice
08-04-2007, 08:12 PM
I was playing Banjo Tooie with my 3 year old niece the other day and she asked the following:
"Why do they make us watch the story?"
I love that kid!
ccovell
08-05-2007, 05:22 AM
It's a dirty secret that kids these days have horrible grammar, and so do their teachers! (Depending on where you live.) I die a little more inside every time a co-worker [teacher] makes a spelling mistake in class.
But let's go a little easy on the kids; my 3rd grade compositions were incomprehensible to me the last time I looked at them with an adult mind.
Dayan X
08-05-2007, 01:18 PM
christ! I was reading Hemmingway in the 5th grade! :o I hereby consider this the entropy of the United States of Asinine.
Jorpho
08-05-2007, 02:28 PM
Hemmingway? Was everyone in the class thrilled to be reading this?