to be fed up with correcting teacher's spelling mistakes

[dealer]

No doubt I will now write a post riddled with spelling mistakes, but I'm not teaching small children in my defence.

I accept, no-one can spell everything, and I would not be surprised if a teacher had to look up stationary/stationery for instance. But I'm really fed up with ones that I would expect children to be able to spell turning up in homework/letters/displays. And I feel compelled to correct them.

Recently we've had Antartica, in huge coloured letters on a display. Got me a very grumpy response since he then felt he had to change it. We've had a work sheet home with Autum on. My son asked for barbecue/barbeque in his spelling book (not sure how to spell it myself) but I think the teacher writing bar-b-q is a bit out of order. And the latest one is the teacher correcting squirl to skwirel on homework. I wrote on it in red 'teacher please correct correctly', possibly a bit snotty of me but I'm getting fed up of it.

Do other people get this? And do they get annoyed? Or AIBU?

Oooooooooooh, this is going to be interesting.

I personally would copy it all and take it to the Head, but then I'm a right snotty cow.

Therefore, I think YANBU!

No, YANBU. The standard of spelling in the UK is absolutely appalling (or should that be appauling as I see on here numerous times) !

YANBU at all

skwirel? Really?
Jesus what a moron.
YANBU

The 'squirrel' correction is hilarious, but also worrying. I'd be complaining, and I think just the odd pointed remark from you on homework is very restrained!

YANBU. All professionals should write properly. If they find it hard (but are otherwise brilliant) they should recognise their limitations and use the tools available to them.

YANBU AT ALL. Buy the teacher a dictionary for Christmas.

I was really shocked at the squirrel one. Ds used a q, so i don't get how you wouldn't notice that was the correct start.

What the hell word starts skw?

These examples are from 3 different teachers btw.

I'm shocked, frankly. Skwirel? Really?

YANBU but you must show the Head Teacher

I almost don't believe myself, and I know I wouldn't believe it if someone else wrote it.

Oh, not sure about 'skwirel' either I must admit

The head has been shown. She says she'll have a word.

Fucking hell, I would be seriously considering taking my dc out of this class.

YANBU

I have a red marker pen which is used exclusively for the school notice board.
The head often notes that Dr. DD has been in again!
The one that really hacked me off was: "All librey books to be returned to the librey before the end of term"
I did check that it had been written by the librarian before I extracted said pen from bag.

YANBU. I had to correct the maths teacher's maths the other week! He'd marked DD1's correct answer wrong and changed it to a wrong answer. He's a MATHS teacher FFS!

If it's three different teachers the apostrophe should follow the s in the thread title though.

I knew I'd do something like that, fair point.

Jesus! That's worrying. I know a girl that has just qualified as a primary teacher or, according to her Facebook status at the time "yeh, jus qualifyed 4 teachin. Bring on d kidz". I'm not sure if she can spell really and this was just Facebook bravado shite but it scares me that my DCs may get taught by someone that thinks it's ok to write things like that. In any context!

This would drive me potty too. My mother used to correct our school reports and return them to the head teacher. Especially the grammatically incorrect ones from my English teacher!

I too am often compelled to correct notices but usually manage to restrain myself.

My own spelling isn't great but I usually know I've spelt the word wrongly - I just can't work out the correct spelling without consulting a dictionary. I'm well practised at re wording sentences to avoid 'difficult' words like niece, accommodate and sincerely.

It's not just the spelling though, it's the poor grammar sometimes too.

When my DS was in year 2, he brought home a worksheet that had been written and photocopied by a TA.

The first question was asking what their favourite toy was.

The second question was, "How old was you when you got this toy?"

I showed the Head and she went ballistic Lol!

I had this with DS1's Y1 teacher. He was sent home with a list of spellings to learn. Which included the word 'seeside'. . Thankfully I didn't need to go in and force feed her a dictionary correct her - my 5yo (at the time) DS1 'pulled her upon it' in front of the entire class. At a most inopportune moment for the teacher, as the HT was in the classroom at the time. And he did it by saying "How can you teach us to spell when you send us home with a spelling sheet with a word that is spelt incorrectly? Seaside is spelt S,E,A,S,I,D,E not seeside, Miss."

I hadn't pointed it out to him either - he had pointed it out me!

The teacher had the gall to try to tell my DS1 off, saying that he shouldn't correct a teacher, and he was wrong anyway.

My DS1 went and got his dictionary out of his bag and showed her the word. again.

I still can't understand how someone who cannot spell simple words that a 5yo can spell is allowed to be in charge of educating the next generation.

I find this shocking too. Over the years have encountered lots of cases of incorrect spelling, grammar and punctuation - being purrfect I notice these things.

The end of term secondary school reports are always good for a laugh.

Latest one is the 'Insects' project my DC4 is doing and the teacher had scored out CATERPILLAR and changed it to CATERPILLER.

Also find it worrying how often my DC make mistakes with their spelling and it isn't corrected!!