Possibly due to texting with abbreviations rather than full words and also to a ridiculous "politically correct" attitude that insists one should never correct other people's errors.

@Gwendolyn2018 having a teacher unable to spell never helped their own spelling and it's not a good example for the kids who are smarter. What do they think of her? Not much. They should be able to look up to her as an example. Learning to write with a beginning, middle and end should be mandatory for elder students. As for their intelligence, I have nothing to base it on. Nothing either have done has ever impressed me as coming from an enlightened person. They're now in their 40s. Neither ever worked more than 5 years. Dad supports one and the husband supports the other one. I haven't got respect for either ones' accomplishments up to this point. I'm not a person who can accept nothing and praise them for giving birth or shoveling the neighbors driveway. Too many parents accept mediocrity and praise their kids for that. I am not that person.

@Gwendolyn2018 I never heard she had learning challenges. She got out of her car carrying a clear plastic bag full of makeup. Her priorities were elsewhere. There were probably 3 men to impress there.

I understand there are challenges inherent in some children=- my children didn't have anything holding them back. I will say in 4th grade my son lost his best friend to a car accident and never fully recovered from that. Death interrupted his mental health fora bit I think. I used to have talks with him about his friend but it did really go on for a longer time than expected.

All of her life my daughter never had one friend. Not one. For birthdays I had to implore my friends to drop off their kids for a party. She was socially awkward and I think still is. I understand everyone has set backs but I still think most parents use praise too liberally. I had higher expectations from them and in my eyes they stumbled. I have never communicated that to either one.
Their life choices as they got older pretty much left me speechless. I don't offer the fact IRL that I have children. They are adults and I no longer feel it necessary to understand either of them.

@Gwendolyn2018 For those people being an intellectual is truly viewed as a negative. It's not the jocks that get bullied in school, it,s the smart kids. I suspect brilliant minds intimidate them. The "deer in the headlights" look when a word with more than two syllables baffles them is amusing.

@MizJ I think there is much in what you say. It is my prejudice that stupid people can find intelligent people frightening because stupid people do not understand how intelligent people think, feel and react, and so find intelligent people unpredictable, and hence frightening. /@Gwendolyn2018

@anglophone There may be a lot in that. But I also think that in part, there is an deep understanding, known intuitively to most, that real working intelligence, the sort that counts in the world, is made not mainly by smart genes, but by care and effort. And so there is a guilty feeling that. "I too could be smart if I was not uncaring and lazy." So that smart people act as a reminder of guilt, and what do you do when someone tells you something unpleasant you don't want to hear ? You hit the messenger.

@Fernapple That also makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

@Fernapple Working intelligence requires reading instead of parking in front of a TV.

@Gwendolyn2018 Smart kids that receive only ridicule are the lucky ones.

Sadly, very true.