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'?

Correcting is ok.

Writing "ahem" is not.

Well, Dd's headteacher has written "stationary" instead of "stationery" in the weekly newsletter. The headteacher.

I agree that the "ahem" is unpleasant and unnecessary. Teachers may be role models and all that shit, but they're also human and fallible - like the many posters who've made errors in this thread. I expect that the teacher knows the difference between "your" and "you're" but had a hundred other things to do and hurried that [otherwise very positive and actually helpful] note in your DD's planner.

I think that an underline and a Ahem! was a nicely pitched way of correcting the teacher. It's not rude and has a friendly jokey feel to it.

If the teacher is anything like me she may have started writing the sentence intending to write you're demonstrating excellent decoding skills in this work been distracted by a child asking a question/a disruptive pupil/a colleague entering the room and then when she went back to the work completed the sentence incorrectly.

I think it's rude and unnecessary. Perhaps op needs a hobby.

Raspberry Yes. Apostrophes when unnecessary piss me off more! I once saw a pest eradication company van which stated that they exterminate "bee's and wasps". WHY ONE AND NOT THE OTHER?!!!!! Anyhow... deep breath There is no excuse for a teacher having bad grammar. Ask someone to proofread if you're tired.

On the one hand I think that grammatical or spelling mistakes in any correspondance from schools is embarrassing, and doesn't really inspire confidence. However teachers are only human, and everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I also suspect that writing "you're" rather than "your" is most likely due to writing in haste rather than lack of understanding, as most people failing to grasp that rule write "your" all the time.

chocolateistheenemy The comment was a marking comment written in a child's book. If I asked someone to proofread my marking it would be an impossible task. This evening I have marked 30 Literacy books (60 pieces of written work) 30 Science books, 30 RE books and 30 Maths books.

I probably have made some errors in the lengthy comments that I wrote in many books

There is no excuse for a teacher having bad grammar. Ask someone to proofread if you're tired.

Blimey! Good luck finding someone who would proof read the hundreds of comments teachers write in planners/ school books and letters every week!!

MagicHouse I've just been mentally totting it up - I think I have marked at least 300 pieces of work this week (leaving comments, not just a tick). Written in 30 planners, oh and marked 60 pieces of homework

YANBU, I'm sick and tired of trying to decipher the childish scrawl that most teachers seem to send home - and don't even get me started on school reports.

I would not correct something in the homework book (I pay little attention to spelling and grammar in every day things)
I do pay a lot of attention to school reports though, they are terrible. I find myself genuinely amazed that these people have graduated from university when they appear to be so......well.......stupid!! ahem

YABU to do what you did - that will do nothing but cause embarrassment, and it makes you look rather arrogant.

That said, when my girls were at playgroup, they had a little book with printed stickers on the front declaring "Eviltwin1's Daily Dairy" & "Eviltwin2's Daily Dairy". I was itching to point that one out. Assuming the entire cohort had little daily dairy books though, I left it - what would be the point? I'm not convinced they would have recalled all the books to reprint the stickers...

Takes stupid self away from thread as obviously it isn't worth trying to discuss it anymore

Sneaking back in to say to kim147 I expect the children to respond to the mrking by asking them to sometimes leave a written comment alongside my comment and also correlating it to their individual targets

Oops, didn't mean to imply ALL teachers are stupid! Feel bad now

I am a teacher. If I made a mistake like that I wouldn't mind if it was pointed out to me, slightly embarrassed maybe!

I am also a parent, and if I saw that in my son's planner I'd be tempted to get the red pen out too. I have corrected our surname on his books twice, it's easy to get wrong but I think the teacher should be able to do it. I also corrected one of his spellings last year as I think it's daft to learn the wrong spelling for a test.

I don't think tiredness is an excuse for poor grammar. Wine, maybe...

Now wine stains I would forgive. I might even tick.

That said, when my girls were at playgroup, they had a little book with printed stickers on the front declaring "Eviltwin1's Daily Dairy" & "Eviltwin2's Daily Dairy".

I love that! I have visions of toddlers milking cows!

See now, I kind of think your / you're could be a rushed mistake rather than actually not understanding the rules of the language. People are so used to auto correct etc.

However.. DDs new school seems to be utterly unaware of the myself / yourself rules though. The first note from new teacher asked us to "speak to mrs X or myself" :(
I really want to say something, but I really can't think I a way of doing it that is not rude or will mark me out as one of those parents.

Any suggestions?

Raspberry - I agree.