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[neversremedy8]

AHHHHH!!!! It hurts! It hurts!

For reference:

CERTIFICATE is NOT a VERB

If you must refer to having a certificate, you are CERTIFIED. But no. Oh, no! Some idiot in management at some college didn't know how to speak English (despite having been born and raised here), and didn't know "certified" and said "certificated," and now colleges around the country are talking about how a student should not refer to themselves as being "certificated" until passing the course. *headdeskheaddesk*

Fine. Fine! I won't speak English properly anymore. Instead, I'll dance the Rasputin! Ha! There! Take that higher education!

Comments

[yndy.livejournal.com]

worse... it was the freakin' teachers that did it!!!

I was stunned to find out that the first common usage of 'certificated' was in the education field. Teachers for K-12 are no longer certified, they are 'certificated' - which in my book, makes anyone who sends their children to public school anymore, certifiable...

[neversremedy.livejournal.com]

makes anyone who sends their children to public school anymore, certifiable

Or, like me, are too poor to send them to private school or homeschool (the latter is my preference, but I'd rather enjoy either).

[yndy.livejournal.com]

noted exception, assertion amended:

makes anyone who sends their children to public school who can afford not to, certifiable...

;)

[neversremedy.livejournal.com]

*grins* You should have heard me the last several months ranting about it, and considering the preschool I put her in for the summer (because her former one just closed thanks to the director) is attached to a public school nearby, my whining fell on deaf ears with her new teachers. Ah well, at least they like her. I can put up with their weird looks for a couple more weeks. But still . . . *shudders* public school. She's on the waiting list for an alternative school nearby, and the public school I'm sending her to emphasizes coordinated science and art, and has a wicked in-class music program. Then she comes home to me, and I have some of the tools necessary to add to her education here. As my mother put it, "it's only Kindergarten . . ."

I have to hope that in a year or two I can afford to either put her in a decent private school (although I'm hesitant given the options around here) or homeschool her. Because, really, most compulsory schooling frightens me. I'll have to look up my former rants and the ideas I have for starting a completely different type of private school based in part on John Taylor Gatto, the classical education, and a spiral-learning based school out in New York I fell in love with.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

fortunately, not all education systems are oblivious to the correct usage... but should disgust anyone allowing these people to shape the minds of our children...
(http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=teacher+certificated&btnG=Search)