Grammar, grammar, and more grammar

You know how when you have been analyzing or working with a single word for so long, it starts to look likes it's spelled funny? Grammar is doing that for me now. Anyways, I really liked the "Why Revitalize Grammar?" article. I like how they did a kind of Mythbusters with the Challenging Views grammar. This section gave me a kind of arsenal from which to shoot my defenses if I am challenged about the way I [will] teach grammar. Being so far into the Secondary English Education Program here at Mizzou, I am sure you will all sympathize with the situation. Does it seem as we make our way to become big bad English teachers, people get more and more picky about the way we talk? I have friends who sometimes seem so proud of themselves when they catch a grammar mistake that I make, it's kinda ridiculous. [On a side note, I find it interesting that spellcheck no longer underlines "kinda" in angry red] Anyways, I have never been a grammar stickler, and most people know this about me, but they still think that I need to be some divine grammar goddess because I am going to be an English teacher. I really like the way that Dunn and Lindblom approach the concept of teaching grammar. Most people have this perception of English teachers beating students with the grammar book, and I think this image is what causes people to hold me to a higher grammar standard. I had no intention, and still have no intention, of doing this in my classroom. I really do think that grammar is best learned in context, not in isolation.