Is what the term really means....Mediocrity is the only possible outcome. Welcome to the dumbing done of America. After all, if someone is ahead of you, your self-esteem may suffer. If someone learns more or faster than you, the teacher must somehow be favoring them - after all, you are entitled to equality, i.e. the blessed A grade. Mainstream everyone, regardless of ability or mental capacity. They are entitled to their equality as well. Such is the state of American Education: No student will ever get ahead and we shall remain far behind the pack of the rest of the world.....

Welcome to the dumbing done of America.

That was a really bad sentence to misspell a word in.

But the point is well taken...

FirstInLastOut:

Welcome to the dumbing done of America.

That was a really bad sentence to misspell a word in.

While we're all correcting one another's usage of the English language, what you mean to say is, "That was a sentence in which it was really bad to misspell a word."

The real question is, does the misspelling reinforce or undermine the meaning of the sentence? It could be argued that it was an appropriate sentence in which to misspell a word. Granted, it would have been better had the author of the post committed the error intentionally.

ps. In all honesty, I think the rule discouraging one to end sentences in prepositions is archaic. Tangentially, the editors of Trivial Pursuit seem to agree with me on this one.

pps. I have a vague suspicion that my proposed restructuring of your sentence is not itself completely correct. (preemptive psuedohumility)

Try: That was a bad sentence in which to misspell a word.

We need a genetic test to predict spelling ability and grammar conformity

I think I took your class some years ago.

p.s. You're still condescending......

The word was not misspelled it was miss-corrected by the spell checker…

It was a bad thread to have a miss-corrected typo.