I'm not sure why you think being pedantic about explaining/complaining gets you out of anything. Acting like only lazy idiots go into teaching is rank nonsense,

I'm not sure why you think being pedantic about explaining/complaining gets you out of anything. Acting like only lazy idiots go into teaching is rank nonsense, in either case. > I mean that any school that is turning out a school population where less than 20% of the students can read and write at grade level should spend 0% of their time talking about pronouns Why? Do you think it's irrelevant to basic language education to understand what a pronoun is? Do you think that maybe using "their" in your previous sentence is something no one should teach and is unimportant to writing? Do you think that students are failing at reading because they can properly use 'you' and 'I' in sentences? > cultural or social issues of any kind. What do you mean by 'cultural and social issues'?