<p>GolfFather - I am with you 100%. I still see “alot” and “loose” instead of “lose” all the time with co-workers. It’s like nails on a chalkboard.</p>
<p>I had a middle school English teacher who told us to remember that the principal is your friend (thus he is the “pal”). How hard is that?</p>
<p>On the college front, this is why you shouldn’t be shy about editing recommendations that teachers give to your kids to take home to read before they submit. A chemistry teacher just thanked me for editing the rec he was going to submit for DS; he was so embarrassed that other parents in previous years hadn’t caught the mistakes that were in the template part of the letter. They were really bad; I was mortified.</p>