>>Yes. It seems teachers no longer care or the school system has forgotten the importance of correct English.
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>I don't think we can simply blame schools. Kids hear language in many, many places and they repeat what they hear. (FWIW, at least some of my teachers would have objected to my using "kids" rather than "children" in that sentence.)

It seems that I was learning english in all the wrong places. Last year, about 45 years after I spoke my first sentence in this language, I learned that kid is, actually, offspring of a goat. This unscholarly use of the word to mean a child is so prevalent that it never occurred to me that it may have a previous meaning.