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.

[BOF]

Good point, Anais, I can see why that's a problem.

[AnaisHellWitch]

Thanks BOF

Still dithering about it...

[FriskyMare]

Dc were taking part in a music festival at a small private school. They had produced a lovely brochure with a full page advertisement describing how they had a 98% success rate of pupils gaining places at Grammer schools.

[englishteacher78]

@eleflump - we get that on loads of our parcels xxxx xxxx grammer school! Awful!

[LeGavrOrf]

Funnily enough BOF, that teacher who refused to back down about the spelling of goal was all right. He retired and set up a photography business and I ended up working for him pt when dd was little, and we are still fiends to this day.

I called him out on it but he said he couldn't remember, and I gave him a beady look. He said I was an obstreperous little git at school (how dare he )

[FriskyMare]

eleflump wonder if it was the same school

[ninah]

you can mix a near black if you use every colour going

[ninah]

at still fiends on a spelling thread

[LeBearPolar]

LeGavrOrf - love the idea of you are your old teacher still being fiends to this day.

What devilish deeds do you get up to?!

[ninah]

I had a ta write 'once apon a time' on the board as a story starter

[LeGavrOrf]

Haha at fiends.

[LeGavrOrf]

It's typical isn't it, spelling mistakes on a thread like this.

[morethanpotatoprints]

The day my dd started school, all the parents were invited into the classroom for a preview. In bold letters on a large label on a large crate
read ROLL Play

[ninah]

oh, and the apon a time ta is doing teacher training right now ...

[BOF]

Obstreperous little git? Was that your apprenticeship for becoming an Atrocious Cunt by Sixth Form?

Tell me that story again- something about a poster in the common room?

[LeGavrOrf]

It was in the 90s and EVERYONE at school was obsessed with Nirvana, not me though, i was a groover and liked Depeche Mode (!).

Anyway loads of my mates had tickets to see Nirvana in concert in Cardiff. A few weeks before the concert date Kurt Cobain shot himself. As you can imagine loads of people were distraught. Not me though, I thought they were silly fuckers. So I got a big bit of paper and wrote 'half price Nirvana concert tickets available' and wrote something stupid like 'people are gunning for them' and out it up in F block (the year 11 area). Some twat (she was called Jo Jackson) recognised my bloody handwriting and said 'it was getorf' and people did NOT find it funny and I was shunned.

Anyway I told this story to marmaladetwatkins who was a big nirvana fan in her youth and she called me an atrocious cunt.

[BOF]

That is HILARIOUS. You so deserve that title

[caroldecker]

Not entirely on thread, but aren't we glad all teachers are trained.

[LeGavrOrf]

When Marm called me an atrocious cunt I couldn't stop laughing. I was thrilled.

[cardibach]

I am an English teacher of 24 years' standing, and there are words I can't spell reliably (e.g. embarrassed - is that right?) and I always check them before writing on the board. I am also happy for a student to correct me if I am wrong (as absent mindedness sometimes sets in). They love it if they can as it is a very rare occurrence. A teacher who can't admit they are wring is a very worrying creature. Everyone makes mistakes.
I once knew an HMI (precursor to OFSTED) who used to say to teachers, "Which of these children is more intelligent than we are and what are you doing about it?" Very revealing, I think. I am aware that,. though I am above average intelligence, some pupils are higher up that scale than I am. I know more at the moment, but they will overtake me. I have no problem acknowledging this. If your child's teacher does, they may well be a twat.

[cardibach]

*wrong. I rest my case.

[friday16]

The primary school teacher who genuinely believed that dinosaurs lived alongside early humans

And then, presumably, started some crap about their religious freedom when challenged on it.

[BOF]

cardibach, double r, double s is correct.

LaQueen, I once passed on a great tip to you about how to spell 'discreet'. It makes me weep when you still get it wrong .