Is there an intelligence test TV writers have to fail?

[kandrathe]

I came from a smaller district (Omak was barely A sized when I went through school), yet we still got some heavy grammar built into the Middle School level English classes (7th and 8th grade, that was early/mid 80s). When looking at the curriculms of some of the large school districts in Washington state, you didn't see that kind of thing. As Pete mentioned, grammar was pretty much forgotten in the large school districts, but most of the small school districts did continue to push grammar, maybe not as a seperate course, but it was there.

I came from a small school as well. I still vividly remember the year I spent in Ms. Fitzgerald's class diagramming sentences, reviewing parts of speech, and giving a thorough analysis of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style".