I work with people who mostly grew up and did their schooling (including college) in the US. Apparently even engineering students here are supposed to take a couple of language/other liberal arts style classes.
This being the case, I'm not sure why the grammar, sentence construction, and spelling of a lot of people in the States is really bad. I'd definitely be for the theory that English (and possibly other liberal arts subjects) is not taught in even a slightly rigorous way here.
> I'd definitely be for the theory that English ... is not taught in even a slightly rigorous way here.
It isn't. Public schools are haphazard, it is rarely taught well there. It isn't generally included in the sort of language/liberal arts classes that engineering students might be required to take (those are going to be more along the line of literature or creative writing classes).
It is probably taught well in catholic schools, if anywhere.
This being the case, I'm not sure why the grammar, sentence construction, and spelling of a lot of people in the States is really bad. I'd definitely be for the theory that English (and possibly other liberal arts subjects) is not taught in even a slightly rigorous way here.