Continuation of Agravation

So, after editing my girlfriend’s paper, she said to me, “did you edit it like a crazy English teacher?” I said I edited it and inquired why she wanted me to be so thorough with checking for grammar mistakes. She told me that he teacher deducts a half letter grade for each mistake. I was appalled to hear this, even being the sometimes-crazy English teacher I am. But I am not a “crazy English teacher” about grammar usage and I never will be. I am a crazy English teaching with stressing the importance of emotion and feeling within the classroom. I have talked about this idea in other blogs, but now that I am in this Grammar for Everyone class, I am becoming more and more aware of how much crap it really is to care so much about something that shouldn’t take precedence in the classroom. My girlfriend’s teacher probably had a strict teacher previously and is now taking it out on his students. Students don’t need to learn grammar rules. Students need to learn how to know that they matter and that their opinion counts.