Chances are you've heard about Geoffrey Stanford, the high school junior who pointed out an error in a Kansas writing test. The error was a simple matter of word usage -- the word "omission" was mistakenly used in place of the word "emission."
Stanford has been in the media spotlight ever since.
Now, I get the irony of the situation. The student corrects the teacher. But is something like this really newsworthy? If anything, the media shouldn't be lauding Stanford as a grammatical genius; they should be questioning the Kansas Department of Education and their ability to edit.
I'm also sure that the majority of people on Earth who have a basic knowledge of the English language understand the difference between "emission" and "omission." Even then, it's only a single letter typo away.
Still, it's not Stanford's fault the media jumped on this story.
They tend to be desparate in that way, after all.
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