To have written the correct spelling

[Verbena37]

Where DD's teacher had written her spelling error as category???
DD (13) had written catagory and the teacher had put catergory x 3 in green pen and made DD write it out incorrectly.

I've written sp category in purple felt pen.
I don't think that's unreasonable

I think if you are going to correct someone's spelling you should be willing to take the time to ensure that you are correct.

YANBU. I remember being aggrieved by the teacher in what would now be Year 5 who corrected HYPHEN to HYPHON - why I was writing about hyphens at all I have no idea!

Sometimes my son's school send out forms which require signing. I always correct their spelling errors, I refuse to sign something with spelling mistakes.

DS's teacher wrote "...is on coarse to finish level 3". There was a 'Parent's Comments' section so I wrote "I'm pleased he's on course..."

Stealth correction.

YANBU.

I might leave it but draw on a smiley face next to it so he knows I'm being light hearted in a passive agressive kind of way.

TBTC20......just tested it ....the iPad autocorrected tippex.

When my daughter was about 6 or 7 her teacher crossed out her correctly spelled "scary" and replaced it with "scarey"! I was furious and let him know it too. For a child to get a spelling right and be told it's wrong by their teacher is completely unacceptable IMO.

YANBU to be annoyed about this. However, 30 odd years as an English teacher ruined my spelling - seeing incorrect spellings every day made me doubt my own sanity as it were! I think, if you want a good relationship with your child's teacher and he is otherwise doing well, I'd cut him some slack. Having said that, if you had corrected my error in purple pen I would have found it quite funny and written a note to thank you.

Marking is difficult and tedious and sometime you get the wrong spelling in your head. However there is thing called a dictionary which is really most yoosfull.

• this thing called a dictionary Grrrr!

I think instead of correcting the book, you could write a nice note pointing out the mistake. You are right, your child shouldn't be copying out mistakes three times - BUT it's your child who has to face the teacher, so you need to point out the mistake in a way that will keep the peace.

Too late. I quietly told DD what I'd done, and was about to say I'll correct it, when she went absolutely mad! Let's just say, it all got out of hand and she is now grounded.

I do feel a bit bad as it was my fault but she was mad I'd written in her book.

Teenagers

That's a bit harsh! You wrote in her book and potentially humiliated her and now SHE'S grounded?!

Hmm, after she punched me, threw a everything off the table into the floor, screamed the house down shouting the f word and the. Hurt my neck by pulling by my hair. I don't care about my little note when she over reacted like that. I actually apologised when I told her and said I'd cover it but then she went off on one.

You think the OP should ground herself?

Cheer up OP teenagers eventually rejoin our species. Promise. We did!

Aw, I feel sad for your DD.

Oops, X-post. No excuse for her then.

X-posted OP: please forgive my flippancy. That's beyond normal teenagery.

However, 30 odd years as an English teacher ruined my spelling - seeing incorrect spellings every day made me doubt my own sanity as it were!

IIRC there's actually some research on something similar. Can't remember exactly what they were looking for but part of the experiment involved showing adults lists of incorrectly spelt words. Apparently the researcher involved in giving the words, who had been a good speller previously, had some difficulty in spelling those words correctly after the experiment had ended.

That's actually really interesting rafa

I'm baffled about why people feel they shouldn't point out the mistake. Are you suggesting that teachers would discriminate against the pupil because their parent pointed out a spelling error that was not a rushed comment in passing but a committed effort to teach the wrong spelling to the pupil. Or are a teachers feelings/shielding them from embarrassment more important than a pupil learning the correct spelling of words?!

Why are there so many apologists for poor teaching on mumsnet?

OP your daughter needs to manage that temper, poor you.

DD's Y2 teacher listened to her read and then wrote in her school diary "DD (wrong spelling of name) is fassinated by bug's". DD actually crossed it out herself so I didn't have to say anything.

Anyway, op sounds like you're in a very difficult situation. Is your dd often so angry?

No, hardly ever but anything that makes her embarrassed will set her off. It's a new school so think she is just wanting to settle in and for me not to make a fuss.....little madam.