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Katrina Lavery died of a bowel obstruction at the age of 21. In a lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, her mother says senior managers at a home operated by the Garth Homer Society ignored her symptoms for months.
ALONG with others, I find the errors of grammar and syntax frequently noted by your correspondents irritating, but am only too well aware of the root cause of these, and it does not lie with current or even recent education systems. In fact, it lies as far back as the directive from those “on high” who did not themselves have to teach, commonly referred to as the ‘65 Memorandum, which forbade primary teachers, from 1965, any longer to teach grammar, syntax or even spelling, just as they were banned from teaching times tables. Any teacher found not to be following this directive would have been severely reprimanded.