January 15, 1999

The Scarlet P: Why Pell Grant Holders Aren't Slackers

By BETH MACY

At a conference on teaching that I attended recently, a man rose to address a panel on how to prepare student writers for the workplace. He confided that his community-college students spell terribly, skip class too much, and wouldn't know the difference between a comma and a semicolon if the symbols were tattooed on their forearms.

He was flip, frustrated, and amused.

I wanted to smack him.

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