I've seen it, and it's nothing new. There was a whole department where I went to school dealing with such things. Math, English, and ESL. It's quite a conundrum. How do you get kids to read a style manual if they can't read well? The ESL kids sometimes end up doing better than native English speakers. Not sometimes, often. And people wanna make English the official language.

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