Why am I so adamant about this? I am not an English teacher, but I believe my role is to prepare the students for "life". I believe one should use good grammar in life. "Me and my boyfriend..." is not acceptable. Please use, "My boyfriend and I..." I have always said that poor grammar and spelling reflect on who you are. And here is someone who agrees with me.

Kyle Wiens is CEO of iFixit, the largest online repair community, as well as founder of Dozuki, a software company dedicated to helping manufacturers publish amazing documentation. He is also a "stickler". He has written an article titled: I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why. Here's what he says, in part:

If you think an apostrophe was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus, you will never work for me. If you think a semicolon is a regular colon with an identity crisis, I will not hire you. If you scatter commas into a sentence with all the discrimination of a shotgun, you might make it to the foyer before we politely escort you from the building.

...grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the internet. In blog posts, on Facebook statuses, in e-mails, and on company websites, your words are all you have. They are a projection of you in your physical absence. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can’t tell the difference between their, there, and they’re.

Good grammar makes good business sense — and not just when it comes to hiring writers. Writing isn’t in the official job description of most people in our office. Still, we give our grammar test to everybody, including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers.