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.

We just got the school's autumn/winter newsletter and I've gone through it with red pen as it's atrocious. DH keeps daring me to send it back on Monday but I'm just not brave enough! I appreciate the admin staff have a heavy workload, but if you're taking the time to create a newsletter in publisher to send out to 200 families, the least you can do is proofread it!

Euphemia,

I get 'I dun gud reedin' - we have a fair few illiterate parents so the children do their own reading diaries. I often send home sheets of little 'dot' stickers for these families so that mum, dad, auntie, grandma, elder sibling etc can just stick a dot in when a child reads at home.

at Wallace's typos on this thread - and everyone else's, including my own!

I think I disagree that Boys Grammar School doesn't need an apostrophe. Take the word Grammar out to avoid complication. So you have Boys School. In other words, a school for boys. Which is possessive. Just like if you were speaking of trousers for boys, you would have the boys' trousers.

With regard to apostrophes and acronyms, sometimes apostrophes are appropriate. Teaching your DC spelling obviously needs neither an s nor an apostrophe. Much as if you were speaking of your only DD. You would be teaching your DD spelling - no s and no apostrophe needed. If you were teaching your two DDs spelling no apostrophe is needed. However, if you were speaking of their spelling, I am very proud of my DC's spelling would be correct. Single DD would be, I am....of my DD's spelling. And more than one DD would be, I am....of my DDs' spelling.

It ain't easy is it? And most probably I have made mistakes above! Do other languages have such complicated rules?

rinder - have googled it and we are both correct :) you slightly more so