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 .

My goodness, you sound like hard, hard work. Reading threads like this I'm so glad I swerved a teaching career at the last minute and went into a field where people care about the overall contribution I make/my ideas rather than nitpick tiny errors that don't turn out to be errors after all

Damn sight better paid too.

I feel bad now too. didn't mean to sound mean. I don't know I just don't even notice or worry over these kind of things . Ever . It wouldn't cross my mind considering all the things in life there is or could be to worry about however that's not to say smaller issues can't annoy people too so am sorry if I sounded mean

I can't see what's wrong with it? apart from thank you is two separate words ( isn't it ? )

I feel so sorry for teachers I really do. I'd last one term, & it wouldn't be the children, it would be the parents.

I am an English teacher and I have ALWAYS spelled thankyou as one word. The only time I would separate it into two words would be if I were using a pronoun in front of it. Not going to bore you with my qualifications but I'd say they were good.

I suppose it could be archaic, as I am, but I am absolutely sure it is correct usage.

YABU. You should be pleased the teacher responded promptly and get a bloody grip! (Incidentally, also a teacher looking to leave - bit of a pattern on this thead!)

Well yes, in this context I probably am hard work. But then we have to work very hard to pay the school fees, so I do need something in return.

You sound like the mother that demanded to see me at 5.20 tonight when I was on my way out the door to grab a sandwich for dinner before the PTA meeting that went on until 8 The teacher hadnt ensured one special little snowflake had taken his packed lunch box home. You should post a photo of the writing, we could perhaps identify the teacher that disappoints you so much.

Oh bless you, Psycho! I will take on board tonight's lessons.

I am hard work .

Thankyou may be perfectly correct.

I should never again admit on Mumsnet (or in RL?) that one of my children is at an independent school, without immediately ducking for cover.

Thankyou all for your input.

The teacher we employ lives on our ranch which means that I can demand to see him any time of the day or night, and DS is still a toddler so isn't taught by him yet either .
In all honesty I am slightly more reasonable than that. I think when you are directly paying for education as opposed to through taxes etc it does lower your tolerance of mistakes.

Send us the secret code 15, 15, 20, 10 in my day and we will come to the fence with the false identity documents.

Adds Jane to the list requiring

Is it actually a qualified teacher? Because independents (and now the state academies) can appoint teachers who are not qualified.

I'd probably not rant about your original issue from the op but I might raise an eyebrow. Slightly.

I should never again admit on Mumsnet (or in RL?) that one of my children is at an independent school, without immediately ducking for cover.

Maybe just avoid implying that state school English teachers are less literate than their prep school counterparts?

I should never again admit on Mumsnet (or in RL?) that one of my children is at an independent school, without immediately ducking for cover

All 4 of our children attended private school. Simply because we paid for their education didn't make me wish to pick any of their teachers on written grammar replying to a query. You are going to be one of those mothers if you're not careful.

OP it's English, not literacy. The two are very different.

It could have been worse. It could have been thank you for you're note. I would have found that one hard to forgive.
Tight spacing between words...not so much. Yabu.

It has never occurred to me that thankyou is incorrect

i have an A Level in English, a degree and a Doctorate

Perhaps if I had been to a Prep. I'd not be in this terrible state of unknowing

Wow, you clearly have too much time on your hands to be complaining about that!

It's similar to the practice/practise bombshell

Not really ... and not a bombshell ... practice is the noun, practise is the verb. There's nothing to debate there!

Oh dear. Very glad not to be working in a prep school under a cloud of disappointment and with notes transcribed to the Internet for public scorn.

I have a first and an MA and I have worked at both private and state English departments. I have sent emails with typos.

Don't think English teachers have any less demands in the private sector - just different! All the stuff that isn't teaching.

The parents thinking they own you ... one of the reasons I am happy to have left!