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AIBU?

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Original poster

To red pen DD2's school newsletter, and post it back to them?

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 10:49

Four A4 sides, last page has 11 spelling mistakes alone. I dare not check the other 3 pages, or I will have The Rage.

WIBU to correct it in red pen, and send it back to them?

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curlew · 27/07/2013 12:11

" oh curlew - don't you 'get' it ?"

"Get" what?

Tittypulumpcious · 27/07/2013 12:13

Do it! put a B- in a red circle with 'could do better' next to it!

JenaiMorris · 27/07/2013 12:14

The importance of spelling and grammar is overrated sometimes.

It's a very good thing, proper English, but people can get a bit fetishistic about it.

My bet is that students wrote the newsletter. Still ought to have been proofread and I might be inclined to politely mention this.

beatback · 27/07/2013 12:14

Sarah Stratton. I bet the High Schools Newsletter, was perfect with not one spelling mistake then!

SirChenjin · 27/07/2013 12:16

Send it back - definitely. No school should be sending things out with spelling mistakes. Dear god, if a school can't get this right what hope is there?

curlew · 27/07/2013 12:25

Or deal with it like a grown up........

beatback · 27/07/2013 12:25

I think you need to "Seek" an immediate explanation!

BlackeyedSusan · 27/07/2013 12:26

yabvvvvvvvvv u

mark it with 6green^ pen don't you know, then send it back asking him to do his green pen work

SirChenjin · 27/07/2013 12:35

Oh dear curlew - is someone disagreeing with you?

NoComet · 27/07/2013 12:54

I haven't got DH to proof our school newsletter, it is very long and I've only skimmed it on my phone.

I hope it's pretty reasonable as...

A over subscribed Grammar school can get away with being careless. A comprehensive in an area with falling rolls can't, especially when it's in special measures.

Likewise, I hope someone has been over the Website with a fine toothed comb.

Sadly, sometimes giving the faintest hint of a bad impression becomes, disproportionately serious.

curlew · 27/07/2013 13:03

Starballbunny- get one of the governors to proof read the next one for you.....we love that sort of job. Nice and short and really useful!

sparklekitty · 27/07/2013 13:32

I had a bit of marked homework returned to me 'corrected' once. The mum had 'corrected' their to there wrongly!

Just make sure you are correcting it correctly as such :)

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 13:54

Oh God, NannyOgg, I do mean 'number', don't I!

I could blame it on my baby brain, but my baby is 15.

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 13:56

I know that if I were a prospective parent, and I'd received this newsletter, I'd be ever so slightly doubtful about the school. It's sloppy. Sloppy shouldn't happen.

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Eyesunderarock · 27/07/2013 13:57

I'm an old-fashioned teacher. I'd do it.
I have done it in the past.

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 14:03

I can't send it back. I just killed two nobbing flies with it.

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JenaiMorris · 27/07/2013 14:28

'Sadly, sometimes giving the faintest hint of a bad impression becomes disproportionately serious'

Absolutely, Star.

There's more to education, learning and life generally than spelling.

Eyesunderarock · 27/07/2013 14:30

I'd agree if that was a child's work Jenai, and mark according to age and ability.
But this is a newsletter put out by a school and prepared by an adult being paid to do so. I'd expect accuracy in grammar, spelling and punctuation.

cardibach · 27/07/2013 14:39

As I have sometimes said on here before with regards to sloppy spelling, I'm not sure 'carelessness' is to blame. If you can spell and punctuate it is second nature and therefore it isn't easier to do it incorrectly. Of course typos happen, but surely spell check would pick those up?
I think the school do need to be told, but, as curlew says, it should be done in a grown up way. Actually go in and talk about it or write a letter pointing it out (nicely). I'm a teacher, by the way.

Blessyou · 27/07/2013 14:42

"I can't send it back. I just killed two nobbing flies with it. "

Yes, you can.

Dear HT,
I must protest about this letter. The spelling is dreadful, and there are two dead flies stuck it!

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 14:47

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EstelleGetty · 27/07/2013 14:55

Not terribly keen on the assumption that the mistakes indicate that it must have been written by a secretary. Many people who work in administration are incredibly well-educated. A few secretary friends of mine are a damn sight more intelligent (and better spellers) than plenty of the teachers I've known.

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 14:58

Well, I sincerely doubt the Headmaster wrote it himself. He's currently stretched between two schools, and we hardly ever see him.

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SarahStrattonIsBackForJustABit · 27/07/2013 14:59

I'll not disagree about the high intelligence of most secretaries though, having been one.

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edam · 27/07/2013 15:05

When I was a secretary, I once had an idiot boss who insisted on putting back in mistakes I'd taken out.

So I photocopied his signature from the letter he had signed into my version that had been corrected.

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