First of all "orientated" is NOT a word. Second, it irritates the hell out of me when people use the word, and makes me irate when I hear it over the radio waves, and no less when it's being used in an advertisement for a school where people are supposed to be educated so that they can graduate and work in the real world. If an educational institution cannot afford a decent ad agency to create their ads, or an intelligent copy writer to write, or an English teacher who can at least proof the copy before it airs, and the radio station that airs it is oblivious, it's a sure sign of the decline of the state of education and no less, the media. Yes, orientated is shaking things up south of my brain and is creating a sore point of contention.
It scares me to think that I will unleash my son into this very world of education in America, where Algebra should be dropped as idiotic children are now unable to pass the subject. If our children are stupid, let us then make them twice stupid by not letting them have to endure such hardship and pain as mamthematics. Clearly, this attitude is oreintated towards a kinder and gentler nation, no?
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