Topic Proposal

I plan to talk about how students are not properly taught punctuation. They are taught the minimum to pass beginning English courses and standardized tests. But they are not shown how to use this information as building blocks for furthering their knowledge. Students reach high school and college level English classes and are not aware of how the rules and usage of punctuation have changed. This is mostly the educational systems fault because they give a few handouts as a refresher at the beginning of the year and spend a few days reviewing, but no time expanding the knowledge. I plan to not only speak on the differences between primary and secondary schooling's punctuation, but also on how the educational system needs to reform it and use better techniques to have students ahead of the learning curve and not trying to catch up.