A parent of one of my best students, although she would not be in a grammar class, was told by a previous teacher that her daughter “has neither the discipline nor the patience to learn a second language. Sophie at that time was five years old.
That’s an extreme form of what we’re up against. But do not doubt for one moment that the general tenor of the above vicious statement is alive and well in many of the colleagues in our buildings today and will be for some time, until their grammar ships get loaded up with so much negativity that they sink.