Regardless of the Government's last-minute rectificationThe resignation of the educational system due to spelling mistakes says many things about us, and none of them good. The first is the dramatic decline in academic standards, which is the extension of parents' padding of children at school, and the inability to find a balance between students' emotional well-being and the effort they must make to learn. Young children are eager to learn and will find the level of spelling proficiency that adults consider normal.
It also speaks to the little importance we give to languages, despite the hours devoted to the curriculum. How can we expect students to graduate from school with good English if they leave with poor Catalan or Spanish? Disregarding spelling is tantamount to telling them that languages aren't that important, as if we were ashamed to demand correct expression, especially in Catalan, which is the vehicular language of instruction. And, in fact, spelling mistakes are the tip of the iceberg of a more serious problem: our low level of oral and written expression, which in turn is an expression of an even more serious problem: that those who write poorly don't think well.
In this discussion, there's always the clever one who looks at the finger instead of the moon and says that soon we'll stop writing by hand, so that with the simple gesture of running the spell checker over the text, our spelling mistakes will be gone. History class.
