Even my super chud 6th grade English teacher was always mentioning that 'Shakesphere used they with singular antecedents' and he was apparently the father of modern English in her eyes, so the conversation ended, there was no debate.
In my experience the "singular they is grammatically incorrect" mistake is often from people who learned english as a second language, like myself. A significant part of this is because most ESL teachers are frankly not good at teaching
Even my super chud 6th grade English teacher was always mentioning that 'Shakesphere used they with singular antecedents' and he was apparently the father of modern English in her eyes, so the conversation ended, there was no debate.
In my experience the "singular they is grammatically incorrect" mistake is often from people who learned english as a second language, like myself. A significant part of this is because most ESL teachers are frankly not good at teaching
I'll eat a spoonful of wasabi if this isn't entirely by design. ESL classes not being taught well that is.
I mean, it's a convenient pronoun, when you don't wanna repeat "he or she/his or his" all over again