If he does truly have a hard time with spelling and grammar, then I have no hard feelings either. People learn at different paces, thats a fact, and there is no shame there.
However, if you apply that to all of the horribly worded and puntcuated posts on this site by new members, there is a serious crisis within the youth of our country.
I paid attention in school. I've also been almost exclusively around English speaking people all my life. Even if I didn't pay attention in school I feel confident that I would still have learned enough to be able to capitalize the first word of a sentence, put a period at the end, and maybe throw in a comma somewhere in the middle just to make it look good.
I would help my child as much as I could too, and I do.
And you're right, we don't know his past educational experience or the circumstances of him being home schooled. Still, somewhere along the line, probably 4 or 5 years ago, grammar was beginning to be taught. Considering that his spelling is really not all that bad, I highly doubt that grammar is something that he is not able to comprehend.
This whole rant I've been on this past few weeks is not nor ever was about a few misspelled words or a few missing or misplaced punctuation marks. No one is perfect, and I will easily and freely admit that I am far from the top of the list of Super Spellers or Perfect Punctuaters. It is about a total disregard of the language. It is about being too lazy to reach your little finger over and hit the shift or period key. It is about substituting words with numbers. It is about being indifferent to any of it, its increasing frequency, and its slow but gradual acceptance.
Maybe I am wrong to expect some minimal standard for communication. Maybe I should be quiet and let it all happen. But if its not me, it'll be someone else. I guess this time I decided to stand up and be the asshole.
You spelled my name wrong.