to be really pissed off at bad spelling in dd's homework book

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not by her, by the teacher or classroom assistant.

But my point is that the vast majority DO know how to- they've just made a mistake!
p.s I do not teach literacy, so don't blast my 'skills' or lack of please!! I dread reports season when I need lots of proof reading!!

But some of the errors are basic, for example: seperate, there was more on the trip last year, there parents, read allowed, to name but a few - not things anyone with a reasonable education should even have to think about, let alone proof read. IMO simply not good enough and the teacher training colleges need a jolly good sort out. Standards have been much higher at ds's independent and dd's selective secondary.

My DS brought home his school reading record with this written in it " (DS's name spelt incorrectly) liked reading this storey"

It had been corrected by someone, don't know wwho, but it was pointed out to me that it may look like I did it!

This happened to my ds2. I went through and put a ring around the spelling mistakes with a red biro Nothing was ever said, but she must have seen them ...

I got shot down in flames on another thread for remarking that I thought teachers should be able to spell.

YANBU at all to expect a teacher to be able to spell. DD is in year 6 and has spelling tests every week. If the teachers expect the children to be able to spell, the least they can do is show by example.

Hear, hear.

Drives me mad, but I wouldn't say anything unless it was a written notice in the classroom.

Tbh if a teacher is commenting in 36+ books on top of everything else I am surprised there are not more mis-spellings.

I get this in DS's book too but it's the TA rather than the teacher and tbh I scarcely notice it.