Teacher's grammar

[EmmalinaC]

DD1's teacher has written 'You're decoding skills are excellent' in her planner. Would it be very unreasonable of me to highlight this error and add the note 'Your grammar is not'?

Whilst that sort of error irritates YABU to actually correct it and send it back. Teacher probably had mind on more important things -like scribbling comments in 30books in her lunch hour so she could take a break.
As to fish cacks, I nearly spat tea all over the computer

Teachers should be role models in what they say and write and how they do it.

I am so incensed by bad grammar that I've decided to post immediately - without reading the rest of the thread! I am a primary school teacher. I often cringe at the inaccuracies of colleagues' poor grammar! YANBU to point it out to the teacher. We teach grammatical skills from early on and if she doesn't have a basic grasp of the use of the apostrophe then it's a catastrophe! unless she was writing the letter quickly, whilst knackered, having been planning until midnight the night before

It is not a basic grasp of the use of an apostrophe, it's a spelling mistake. I find it quite astonishing that a teacher can fail to diagnose the error being made.

Well, if it's a spelling mistake, it's a spelling mistake that is less than 5cm away from this week's key word spellings!

So as I said YABU for complaining about the grammar, when there's just been a spelling mistake. (And spelling doesn't have rules, just conventions on how things are spelt (or spelled if you like) so it cannot be a "basic rule" that's been violated.

I would never have done that. Why deliberately embarrass someone like that? Am sure he knows the rule and it was an error made in haste. Your comment was horrid and superior. It makes me cringe actually.

I can't believe you have corrected it. The teacher won't forget that.

Or what bamboo said.

I would have just crossed the spelling mistake out and written the correct word above it. That would be enough.

Adding your remark is unnecessary and a bit rude.

my gramma? leave her out of this.

SlovenlyDotCom

That's the idea of having it pointed out to him - so that he doesn't forget it!

BambooStalks

He won't be embarrassed because he's not going to hang it on the wall for all to see, is he?

I feel for that teacher. You don't know her well enough yet to know whether that was a rare mistake or a genuine lack of understanding.

I make stupid writing mistakes when trying to concentrate through my toddlers noisy playing and frequent interruptions, lose my focus or even lose my thread entirely and add a seemingly random word (usually lego) into an unrelated sentence. Isn't that normal?

When trying to get through a huge workload of marking and book comments, especially on a Friday, especially in one of the most tiring months of the teaching year, I made handwritten spelling and grammar errors. Usually I'd correct my work just as I teach the kids to do. Sometimes an error passed me by, to be pointed out to me later by the child or spotted next time I marked the book. Embarrassing, but important lessons for my pupils. First that anyone can make mistakes. And secondly that you just correct them and get on. Oh - and I also made absolutely sure they knew that I'd never revel in or mock THEIR mistakes...

Raspberry, the OP did actually do it. Unless I've read her post at 20.20 wrong.