To be so angry about this stupid English teacher!

[ILikeTrains]

My daughter's just told me how her English teacher has corrected her on her spelling of apostrophe. Not a huge thing to get angry about except that my daughter's spelling it correctly and the teacher keeps telling her to spell it apostrophie! This is her English teacher, how on Earth is she supposed to respect and be inspired by this teacher.

I know it's quite a small this to get annoyed about but it's just really wound me up.

[AgentZigzag]

Hahahahaha, fucking brilliant Tinlegs

How long did it take you to regain your power of speech?

[HicDraconis]

Westie of course Yorkshire puddings contain meat! Thick slices of roast beef in the middle of the pudding with gravy poured over the top :) I make mine in big pudding tins :)

(Unless you have some left over. Then they don't have meat in the middle, they have honey or maple syrup .... mmmmmmm)

[bludgerwitch]

I had an English as a foreign language teacher who insisted that 'beneath' = 'next to'.

I kept on saying "But it's 'The wind beneath my wings', he would fall down if it meant 'next to'!!!!" - to no avail.

[WestieMamma]

I would have forgiven her if her experience of Yorkshires was a pub lunch with a giant filled one. Really I would. But her argument was that she didn't like offal. I knew she was mixing up her puddings but didn't feel inclined to educate her, just to tell her she was wrong.

She also told me I was wrong for calling my Welsh dresser a Welsh dresser as there's no such thing.

She also told me that the Queen ran the country. I pointed out that the UK is a constitutional monarchy and therefore the Queen did not run the country. She was adamant I was wrong. So I printed off a page from the Parliament website saying they run the country as it's a constitutional monarchy and from the Queen's website saying she doesn't run the country as it's a constitutional monarchy. Teacher told me they were wrong too. :o

[soul2000]

Westie. Yorkshire Puddings are cooked in beef dripping so technically they have meat in them. HA HA.

[picnicbasketcase]

Westie - tell her that saying the Queen is wrong about anything is treasonous.

[YoniGetAnOohWithTyphoo]

YANBU. I remember getting very annoyed being told as a teenager in a very pointed, condescending manner that 'hypocritical' wasn't a word and the correct term was 'hippocratic'. I told her that was just an oath that doctors take, and she looked somewhat flustered and then lied and said 'it's both'. Grrr. Take in the dictionary and show her lol :D

[Heartbrokenmum73]

There was a TA at DM's school who was working with the kids struggling with their literacy. So she made certificates for them to take home. And what did they say?

'Your a star!'.

Mum.was.fuming.

[ReluctantBeing]

I can nearly (actually not at all) overlook the comma splice by fellow English teachers that I currently work with, but when one wrote 'reviews - why they are wrote' on the board, I could have cried.

[MMcanny]

My son's teacher ridiculed him for saying there was ever a three penny coin. The lesson was about coins that had fallen out of use. I think she only went as far back as a half pence. I found an old thruppenny bit from the back of a drawer for him to take in and show her (I am VEEERRRY old!) - as well as printing a factsheet all about it off t'internet - but he was too shy to be so gallus. Thankfully she was only a cover teacher and not his everyday one - wench!

[limitedperiodonly]

I was seven and wrote an essay on where I'd been in the holidays. My teacher corrected my spelling of Blenheim Palace to 'i before e, except after c'.

When I told her she was wrong she told me off.

[WestieMamma]

Westie - tell her that saying the Queen is wrong about anything is treasonous.

I told her that postage stamps within the EU were free but that often shops don't realise so to make sure they didn't charge her next time she was over. I even told her the name of the imaginary Act of Parliament to throw at them. [evil]

[MrsCakesPremonition]

My DD recently came home with an misspelled word in her list of weekly spellings. Not a typo, it was a deliberate spelling and just plain wrong. I wasn't impressed.

DD pointed at the word to her teacher, who admitted the error and told the rest of the group who were learning the same list to correct the spelling on their sheets.

The teacher has now gone right back up in my estimation as she not only accepted her error but also corrected herself in front of the class and didn't make DD feel bad. I like her much more now.

[MrsCakesPremonition]

Complete typing fail - my apologies. I think it is time for me to go to bed.

[AnaisHellWitch]

"Today we done number work"

"Today we was learning about teeth"

[englishteacher78]

How awful! If it reassures any of you, OFSTED's big thing at the moment (one of them) seems to be literacy across the curriculum.
You would, however, be surprised at how often words look weird on a whiteboard. The apostrophe mis-spelling would have angered me greatly though.

[Driz]

Gallus is a fab word MMcanny!

[changeforthebetter]

Am amazed by poor spelling among colleagues - anyone need any asatates?! (Snort)

It tends to be younger people who spell poorly IMHO. "Proffesional" was another beaut (PGCE fellow student).

I am not a spelling nazi by any stretch of the imagination but I do think teachers should get this sort of thing right. Yes, I would comment. The only possible concession is that she may have done a 7-day week, marked 200+ books and be so tired that she is hallucinating........

[mynameisnotmichaelcaine]

I once spelt a word wrong on a child's spelling list, Mum pointed it out, I apologised and thanked her. No drama, child was v happy to have got one over on me.

Sometimes after marking / setting spellings for hours, your mind can go a bit fuzzy. No excuse for the glaring grammatical errors detailed here, but sadly, they are common. I refused to put a notice on my board that said Archery Clubs taking place on Mpnday's. Made me wince. No wonder kids don't get it if they're seeing adults write that sort of tripe!

[mynameisnotmichaelcaine]

That should read "Monday's", it was not quite that illiterate! Also my phone appears to have deleted the speech marks from my post, making me look illiterate. The minefield of modern technology!

[RedHelenB]

I think at year 7 I eould leave it up to your child.m If she knows she is right & is happy that's the main thing. Maybe suggest to her that the next time it happens she offers to look it up in a dictionary (& is of course proved right!!)

[BitOutOfPractice]

Agent zigzag maybe just maybe it's a new secondary school she's started at?

My dd had a frank exchange if views about the capital of the Netherlands during a school quiz a few years back. The teacher was quite wrongly insistent that dd was incorrect. Dd got my oh (who is Dutch) to write a more to the teacher putting her right

[LeGavrOrf]

I remember having a stand up row with my English teacher when I was 12 over the spelling of gaol. He had spelled it as goal on the board. He wouldn't have it. I think he realised that he had made a mistake but didn't want to back down and lose face in front of the classroom. I offered to get the dictionary and got a lunchtime detention for it.

[finallydelurking]

I was once emailed by the deputy head about the 'school websight'. No words.

[BackforGood]

YABU to be "so angry" with the teacher. You need to get it in perspective. She's made a mistake. What she should have done was said "Oh, I thought it was... can you go and check in the dictionary, please" (which, being an English lesson would be in the classroom), then apologised.
OK, she didn't do that, which then is your daughter's choice if she wants to take a dictionary in to show her next lesson, or just let it lie, but, it really, really isn't worth getting so angry about - save that for when something serious happens.