To feel disappointed in this teacher already

[AliAliAlium]

2 weeks into a new school year, first communication from this teacher: "Thankyou for your note this morning...." (written in DS's literacy journal in response to a query about homework). I struggle to get past things like this .

I can't find it in the OED. I HATE thankyou and have corrected a teacher at my school (I'm a TA) more than once.
Could someone do a link to where it is in the OED?

I picked up on the pot instead of post.

I had it drummed into me to read my work through.

Only two weeks into term and a 'big issue' linked to homework already?

That teacher is clearly in for a long year.

You must be quite young, I was taught 'thankyou' at school in the 50s, and have only used two words since autocorrect insisted I do so when typing, at least it makes sense not like 'of' for 'have'.

Ah but this is not my work, MrsExcited. It's a Mumsnet rant ( while bf a baby) to avoid it becoming a real life rant.

I hate to drip feeding, but I (now) feel that it's relevant that it's a prep (which we can only just afford) with a class size of 14, so yes, I probably am being fairly demanding - but this is one of the reasons why DS is at this school and not the local state primary (where, although probably not at all relevant, we do send our other children, and where I would hopefully be far more tolerant of non-issues like this, as I do appreciate what a task teaching a class of 30 must be).

I hate to drip feeding, but I (now) feel that it's relevant that it's a prep (which we can only just afford) with a class size of 14, so yes, I probably am being fairly demanding

Do you? How odd.

Well no, I don't think its that odd! "Thankyou" is wrong, or right, whatever sort if school it is. But now that I'm being criticised for being demanding in relation to issues with homework, which was not the original point of my thread, the type of school does become relevant. I take a different approach with our state primary. And yes, I've spotted my own mistake above. I think I'll go to bed now .

Well in that case Ali you must immediately fire off a strongly worded letter to the teacher concerned, expressing your disappointment that as the teacher only has a class of 14 they aren't spelling things to your satisfaction.

Or write to the Daily Mail? Can you do a good sad face while you hold book up?

Oh dear. I should never have posted in AIBU. I have the stomach for it at all. I'm nice, really I am! Sleep deprived and pedantic, but not unkind. As I have said many times now, I have fully accepted that in respect of the spelling issue I am making a fuss over nothing and that this may be an accepted spelling.

Bloody hell. haven't. I give up.

So 'thankyou' is wrong, in your view, but you expect that sort of thing from a state school?

Is that it? YABVU!

Is this the sort of thing people actually worry about and complain about !?!
I don't understand some people!
Jesus Christ !! Mind you i only went to a state school , peasant that I am

Hatty, you've not read my posts at all and are being deliberately obtuse.

I've accepted that "thankyou" may not, actually, be wrong. I don't know, I haven't looked into it further, but I'll take the poster up thread at face value.

I do not in any way expect mistakes from a state school, but I accept that the excellent teachers there may be so bloody rushed off their feet that we'd be lucky to get a same day response at all, and that, as pointed out above, a reply may be a scribbled note while dealing with something else. But with 14 children, very little in the way of discipline issues, and lots of non-contact time due to specialists, my expectations of teachers in this particular independent school are different. That seems ok to me.

Poor AliAli - I feel bad now! Some days little things feel big - esp if you have a bigger issue that isn't being resolved to your satisfaction. Have a sleep. Tomorrow is another day.

So glad my husband only has 3 more weeks of being a teacher left.

I went to a state school too, psycho. As do 2 of my children. And they'll probably all go to state secondary (and no, we're not in a grammar area). It's not a state / private thing, which is why I didn't mention it, and I'm now wishing I hadn't because I knew it would be jumped on. But it is a class size / time / marketing issue (at least in terms of the level of communication which I think I can reasonably expect from teachers).

I would have been naffed off too, but I am also pedantic

Fwiw, I haven't looked up either - but suspect it is one of those issues where it depends whether you take a descriptivist or prescriptivist attitude to grammar....

PantryOfWhoGivesAFuck - took redundancy so currently doing nowt for a couple of months which is absolutely wonderful. I actually truly think I had a bit of Post Traumatic Stress disorder from my last teaching job, it was beyond awful in every respect.
Plan is to do some tutoring and freelance work in primary schools (I teach MFL) for a while while looking for a 9-5 job out of teaching. My only regret is wasting 12 years of my career in teaching and putting the job first while my family suffered. But no more.

Really? Would you like every tiny error you make at work ridiculed by people on the internet?