Y7 Eng: Teacher's remark in book...

So true Adair re the TES forum, it is horrendous and a bit scary sometimes. And any teacher knows that in their staffroom (well, can't speak for primary but in secondary) there will be a wide range of characters, good, bad and ugly!

But most sane teachers would think they ought to be setting a high standard literacywise, I think..

ampere If dc didn't mark anyone else's work that's a bit odd, as usually peer marking would be done in pairs. Could still be worth asking.

Greensleeves having present ideas laughed at is not nice, those teachers were v mean and ought to swap places with secondary teachers who rarely get anything unless they work somewhere v nice indeed.

""Actually, Greensleeves has posted some very lovely comments about her DS's teacher IIRC. I think you're being a bit unfair."

Okay, if you say so. I haven't seen anyhing pleasant lately - quite the opposite - and I think, on this thread, that it is Greensleeves who has been very unfair.

Sleepinglion

Can I point out that teachers are not a homogeneous group with a hive mind? I am frequently shocked at the attitude demonstrated by some teachers on the TES forum. I haven't actually seen it here tbh. But some people are nasty, and some people are nice. That's life, ain't it?

Actually, Greensleeves has posted some very lovely comments about her DS's teacher IIRC. I think you're being a bit unfair.

"I really don't hate teachers"

Really? I can't remember a supportive post of yours in Primary Ed, for example - you seem only to dive in to criticise teachers when you post. And I would say that actually, in general MN teachers are very supportive of people's queries, especially on Primary Ed. I still think you're confusing parent posters with teacher ones.

I really don't hate teachers

in fact I love most of the teachers I know - have had the odd crap one, much like any other profession

but I do think sometimes when you get a group of people together like this, habits are formed, people pile in and a culture develops

and on MN I find there is a culture of teachers sneering at and belittling parents and being needlessly mean

I know their job is stressful - so is mine - but I often see threads where it has happ0ened and think "why? how horrible"

Ah now, I'm sure I agreed with you on the SATs thread...

And I'm a secondary teacher so am always very of presents of any type.

But yes, we probably do resort to staffroom manners sometimes!

I am nasty

but either I am making this up because I enjoy usetting people, or I am genuinely perceiving a problem here

up to you which you choose to believe really

but I really don't think I can trawl for individual comments on other threads

I have felt hurt, belittled and angry after receiving this response many many times when posting anything to do with school

Oh, and several people disagreeing with you = just that, not a 'spiteful ganging up'.

See, there you go again. If you are going to accuse teachers, en masse, of 'a spiteful ganging up', then you need to say where - it's (another) damning accusation.

Or you could carry on airily throwing bitchy generalisations at MN teachers - but at the moment, it's you who looks nasty, actually.

the examples in your posts are exaggerations though loopy - the ones in mine are true

I see far too much sneering and "they will laugh at you in the staff room" and "your dc will be known as the one with the bonkers mother" etc

defensive I can understand, but sometimes it spills over into a spiteful ganging-up, which I find really nasty

I always think twice about posting about school difficulties now, because I am virtually guaranteed at least 50% of the responses will be derisive and of the order of "teacher knows best, you idiot - keep0 your head down or they will laugh at you and think less of your child"

Better to eye-roll and sigh on an anonymous forum than to or at parents in RL.

To a point Greensleeves, I think you are right, we teachers can get a little defensive.
However there is a lot of "My PFB's teacher swore under her breath today, I'm going to call Ofsted", "My DD (14) was told off today for biting the teacher, AIBU for thinking she should be allowed to do that? Should we move schools?" - type posts on MN, so it is natural to defend others who are in a very stressful and picked-apart profession.

Oops

son not daughter.

And cross post!

If I post "evidence" Feenie I will be accused of supremely bad form in dragging up other threads

and it was a general, highly subjective comment

although from my own experience, the thread where I complained about the Y1 teacher who put my 6yo through Y6 SATS tests without asking me first - I was told I should trust the teacher and not interfere

and when I asked for opinions about my children's ideas for home-made Christmas p0resents for their teachers I was laughed at and told the teacher would think we were mad

lots and lots of examples come to mind

I'm afraid it is true that we do lots of eye-rolling at the things that parents get upset about. I know it's a bit , but really it is sometimes a siege mentality. I spent the first two weeks of term on the phone to parents who have issues with our setting, or the teacher their child has this year. Every free minute, and hours after school - on the phone. I hope I am sympathetic and approachable in manner, but I am certainly rolling my eyes as they assure me their child should be in the top set and I know they shouldn't.

To the OP - if it is the teacher then that is bloody awful. However, as others have said, peer marking is big, so ask your daughter who wrote it the comment first!

I'd mark it with a red pen. (I'm a teacher).

I think it's a perfectly reasonable complaint, teachers should be able to spell and use a dictionary for complex words. Beginning and description are Y3 spellings.

Evidence please!

no issues with teachers

many teachers on MN however resond to any criticism of teachers with patronising eye-rolls and swipes about people's "little darlings"

I've lost count of the number of times p0eople have posted on here upset about something that has happened at school, only to be told that the teachers will be pissing themselves laughing in the staff room if they raise it at school

it was an observation on the way threads about teachers tend to go on MN, rather than teachers at large

and no, I don't write for the Daily Mail, I work in a children's centre and earn bugger all

I'm a teacher and I think that is appalling! Especially from an English teacher, but to be honest, a bit rubbish for any teacher no matter what their subject. We all had to pass the Literacy QTS test which included a spelling test of such words.
Did you find out if it is peer marked or not? Even if the words were spelt correctly it wouldn't be the greatest example of marking in the world ever, but this is coming from me who writes "tres bien" a hundred times a day and doesn't have time to write a huge amount more!

And another English teacher who would be appalled to see this written by any teacher. And as you say, English teachers need to be above reproach with their accuracy.

Greensleeves - any issues with teachers you need to get off your chest?

And while we're naming names, I'm one of the 'GCSE generation' to whom you patronisingly refer, UnquietDad, and on behalf of myself and my professional colleagues of a similar age, I would like to say...

bite me!

I've caught like that before. I moaned to my daughter, luckily, and she told me her friend had marked it. They did have a helpful tick sheet to do as well, so the peer feedbackws quite good, even if the comments were vague and badly spelt!

Hwever, about 20 years ago, my Mum paid for extra lessons for English for my brother. He picked a school teacher he liked and Mum asked her if she did such a thing and she did. The first week she sent home 10 spellings...and 2 were spelt wrong!