Thanks for flagging that post. I just had to edit it because it hurt my eyes. I added a comment.

@Beofett good point.

@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun The flagged post with the lego minifig picture... Tim, yourself, and I have all looked at the post, and I suspect more than one of us downvoted. However, as low quality as the post may be, I'm not sure moderator deletion is justified. Are you okay with dismissing the flag as helpful, but leaving the post?

It's more than a bit depressing when I read a post, think "oh, I wonder where they're from... they clearly don't speak English as their primary language", only to find out that they come from one of the areas of the US that has a particularly poor education system.

@Beofett I'm all for letting the community handle it without our intervention, so yes, I've just dismissed the flag.

@Beofett That's something I can't judge. But I am surprised again and again when I see posts by American adults written with horrible English (grammar, spelling, structure). Some people just don't care about presentation I guess, but they forget that it affects how their readers perceive it. Their loss.

@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun How many languages do you speak? I'm pretty sure that does qualify you to judge :)

@Beofett Har. I meant I have no idea about what parts of your country have good or bad education systems. In my mind (read: on my planet) a country would have only one education system, not different ones.

@TorbenGundtofte-Bruun One of many ways we're weird :P

we have essentially 50 different general education systems, each of which is broken into potentially hundreds of districts. Each state provides general curriculum guidelines and some testing criteria. The districts, I believe, determine specific curricula within those guidelines.

Some states also control the "accepted" text books.

The federal government (now) provides basic testing criteria only (with a series of optional programs that individual districts can opt into in order to receive additional funding)

its incredibly fragmented and inconsistent.

@Beofett Wow. Must be difficult for a teacher to move.