AIBU to expect my child's Year 1 teacher to spell correctly?

I was a TA in a primary lesson and watched in (hidden) horror as the teacher earnestly informed the Yr4 pupils that cavemen hunted dinosaurs for meat.

Afterwards when I quietly informed her that 'cavemen' and dinosaurs didn't co-exist by a gap of many millions of years she was openly skeptical.

Seriously? You pay for this crap?

I'm 70 and was taught to read that way rather than phonics. I don't have a problem in fact it could be trying to spell everything phonically that is leading to mistakes.

Is the list written by teachers or by the kids? My year 1 child has to write the list out himself and has on occasion spelt a word wrong. If the teachers are writing them in then that's clearly unacceptable. A typo in a printed sheet you could understand but not if they are handwritten.

Unacceptable. If she’s setting it as prep for a test, then it needs to be correct. End of. Else why set a test?
I would send a gently-worded mail to the school head, explaining the issue, and the conversation.A teacher who isn’t fussed that they’re teaching children the wrong thing is a liability; it means that at some point the children will have to identify by themselves that what they were taught was wrong, and then learn the correct thing.

😂 My child is in secondary school. I have yet to see a homework assignment without misspellings. Also lots of, “you must use the attached booklet as a guide” with no attachment. It’s hopeless.

You don't need a QTS to be a teacher in an Academy either....

There is no legal requirement for QTS in independent schools. Might this be contributing to the problem?
Also, my nieces are early 30's and were taught to "sight read" at school. That's not great for supporting spelling skills. Is the teacher in that age group?

There seems to be a lot of debate on here about spell checkers but to me that’s missing the point completely. Surely no one employed as a teacher whether in the private or state sector, qualified or not, should need to use one and all the more so in the early years of primary school.
We can all make a mistake but the teacher’s comment that human error is to be expected is making light of the frequency with which they are occurring. I certainly wouldn’t be happy about that and I’d be questioning whether my money could be better spent. If a teacher is so careless about the work she’s sending home it would make me wonder how careless she is with other things

Not unreasonable. Sounds like she gets ai to produce the worksheets

But it's clearly already happened. Most teachers take pride in their work but as with any other industry there's always one or two that just don't care. This teacher sounds like one of them. It would infuriate me and if this teacher kept making these errors I'd ask to speak to the Head Teacher.

That's really really bad!

I don't need to because I can already spell.

Edit: sorry that sounds snarky which wasn't my intention but I don't need a spell checker.

You can set your spellchecker to UK English in Word.

Not only is it possible
It's quite likely

So what happens when the kids put the correct spelling in the spelling test?

DS's Y2 teacher spent a week telling them that WW1 ended in 1945. They made posters and everything. I pointed out that they'd got the wrong war when I saw the posters.

Three years later, the same teacher told DD that she didn't see the point in reading for pleasure.

Human error? I'd potentially kill someone with Human error.

They often use American spelling. I frequently get the wiggly red lines under words when typing in "British' English on my laptop.

I assumed 'they' was the spell checkers. It's the obvious answer.

I agree, you should mention this to the head op. Teaching the children to read and write is literally the main aspect of the job, they need to be able to do it themselves!

We've been lucky, DC's primary teachers were/are great. Whoever writes the newsletters however....😬

Not true, I know someone who graduated with her History of Art degree and waltzed straight into a job teaching at a private school. Obviously not teaching History of Art either. But she did graduate from Cambridge, which is obviously all some fee-paying parents care about.

Post a photo of the page?

What a load of crap. My goodness!

As if parents would be happy to have non qualified teachers/people who don't even have a degree teach their children.

This may happen in senior schools where the chemistry teacher has no PGCE, but is a Dr/Prof and a specialist in their field. But, this is still something that isn't standard practice.

The jealously and glee coming from some posters is just too much!

The problem is that you can have a good degree from a university that MNers would approve of and people tend to assume that means you'll have good SPAG - but it doesn't always. I used to lecture at a Russell Group where loads of our students couldn't use apostrophes etc. - it did cost them marks, but they still got 2:1s. I suspect the same had happened in their other exams beforehand, their GCSEs and A-levels - that they must have lost marks for their spelling and grammar, but not enough for it to be a serious issue for them. I would always refer them to the many sources of writing support the university offered; very few took advantage of this because they didn't see the need (by university they are also often very defensive about already knowing this stuff, even when they clearly didn't and were getting feedback from multiple people that it needed addressing). Multiple times students I taught told me they were going to do teacher training and they were always lovely, bright young people who in many ways would be good teachers but it did make me worry a bit because I'd often think 'but you can't spell!'.

Given that this is an independent school, it is entirely possible that the teacher in this case is not a qualified teacher (or a graduate).