Correcting teachers spelling mistakes

[Kendodd]

Now I have far from perfect spelling or grammar, but them I'm not a school teacher.

WIBU to point out the spelling mistakes in the teacher comments? If so then how? I don't want to come across as rude but if I were a teacher I would want them pointed out to me so that I can stop doing it.

*Please feel free to attack my spelling and grammar, as I said it's far from perfect.

'As I'm not an English teacher, I don't think I should ever be in a formal classroom setting, where my own technical abilities are better than the English teacher, I'm supporting.'

No argument from me, but I'm an old-fashioned teacher. There are other, newer areas of the curriculum I find more challenging. Would you be as critical of the teacher's IT skills? If they weren't an IT teacher?

Surely no apostrophe at all in "boys grammar school" as it is a grammar school FOR boys, not belonging to those boys?

DC would have been correct, because their was no possessive needed "teaching my DC's spelling"

Lol

Oh no, was that a lol at me?

That wasn't the question LeQ.
How would you respond if they had excellent English but limited IT skills in a history lesson for example?

Deliberate mistake, honest

but lol at thier and theiir

please please believe me I do know the difference and event the most perfect people can make silly mistakes

gah! perfect

slinks off htread...

bah! thread!

why do typo demons always strike on threads like this?

I read "teaching my DC's spelling" as incorrect- teaching my DCs (ie more than one child) how to spell, as opposed to the spelling belonging to the DCs. Bloody English. Why can't there be simple rules?

'If their IT skills weren't adequate to the task in hand, then I would expect them to learn and improve, until they were adequate.'

Well, I suppose I could cut down to four hours sleep!

Did Horace come back and explain what was wrong with the ark thing? Is "ark" meant to be "Ark"? Moses' meant to be Moses's?

pmsl at all these people buggering up their apostrophes.

I think there is a distinction to be made between typos and repeated errors. The former can happen to anyone but the latter needs sorting out.

I agree that people have no idea just how little time there is to write comments in books. You are always doing it whilst supervising lots of children too. It can get tricky.

Sending stuff back marked with red pen may be satisfying but it is also rude. I want my children to have good manners AND good spelling skills.

DC is Dear Children so no s needed for plural. So "teaching my DC's spelling" even without the apostrophe is technically incorrect. But if you say it to yourself "teaching my DC spelling" it sounds like it needs an s. How about "teaching my DKs spelling"?

Well done Brooke's parents for bothering to comment. I usually just initial

I think it needs to be remembered that we teachers, and adults in general, correct children over things all the time. We tell children not to fib, fuss, shout, be silly, sit on tables, swing on chairs and yet you'll see us doing it all the time.

When child swing forward on their chairs I put my hand on the back of their chair and push it down. On Thursday I placed a hand on the back of a chair, about to push it down, when I realised it was my TA! I stopped myself in time as I wouldnt have wanted to embarrass her.

We should be setting an example but suggesting that spelling mistakes from people who work in primary schools are NEVER acceptable is simply unreasonable. Its going to happen eventually.

Also, a B in English definitely doesnt suggest better spelling than a C, or even a D! There are a handful of marks for spelling and handwriting. GCSE literature, language or media are...well...studies of literature, language or media. They aren't spelling tests.