To feel disappointed in this teacher already

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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 .

Wow

Yet again anyone who dares question a teacher on mn gets bullied and shouted down. We have the biscuits, the "I feel sorry for teachers", the " I'm so glad I only have x time as a teacher" and the contemptuous, unprofessional "little snowflake". How predictable. You can go to bed now, the thread taken over and killed - we get it, teachers can do no wrong

BTW yanbu op.

I'm an English teacher at at private school in Asia. I have between 8 and 16 in each class. I'm also busy and stressed, possibly in a different way to a state school teacher with 30 in a class, but even so.

I'm also a grammar pedant.

Sometimes I make the odd mistake.

But if you are going to shoot a teacher down in flames on the internet, at least make sure you're correct first! It makes you look stupid.

Thankyou.

Rule #1 of Grammar and Spelling Threads: ensure first that your own grammar and spelling are perfection itself before posting! Otherwise the entire thread gets derailed with people nit-picking your OP and any subsequent posts. Lesson learned, I hope .

This is precisely why I never post grammar threads or pick up posters on their spelling because it almost guarantees that I'll make a typo myself within minutes...

The OP is bloody correct!

'Thankyou' is an adjective, as in 'a thankyou card'.

If you are thanking somebody, it is always 'Thank you for your note'. It's two words.

The people on here who are 'absolutely certain' they are correct: sources, please.

It may be in common usage, or becoming more acceptable, but it is certainly not correct current usage.

Thankyou is one of my blind spots. Thank you for helping me correct it. sneers at the idea that prep school teachers have a better grasp of English than state school teachers

Funny how mumsnet is full of parents admitting they make mistakes and that's life, teachers make a mistake and all the fires of hell come down on them.

Oh and BTW, no teachers at prep schools will not necessarily have a greater grasp of English than those in the state sector. In fact, because of the way private sector schools can hire, a teacher in a prep school may not even be as qualified as one in the state sector will be.

Mumsnet however is populated by people who are so vacuous and facile that a misspelled word can cause an issue.

missing the point here entirely but... is thankyou really a thing now? where was I when that happened?

I have never seen thankyou spelled as one word. Is it a UK thing? (I am in US and would have a lot of communication with Ireland too). I would have just presumed someone missed the space (if typed) or had bad handwriting (like me) if I saw it in a note. I have never seen it in magazines/books/ blogs etc.

mind you, now that I have been alerted to it, I'll see it everywhere.

kitna

Well I know that now

I was never taught it as a child

Stupid cow, eh?

we get it, teachers can do no wrong

Who said that? What I am reading is that picking out an error and publishing it on an Internet forum for people to mock and agree with the OP that it is not unreasonable to feel disappointed, is not considered particularly pleasant. Where has anyone said that teachers are always right? You don't have to be on MN for more than 5 minutes to see all the threads complaining about the turn of phrase a teacher has used etc.

I thought the teacher has been rude or something.

I'm an accountant and, you know what, sometimes I get numbers wrong

Shoot me now

We won't shoot you Iggly, but is it ok if we start a thread where we discuss how disappointed we all are and mock you? We want to get lots of enjoyment out of your error. Would that suit?

only if you can all tell me that youve never made a mistake in your professional careers..... Ever.....

Teachers can indeed do wrong.
If they swear at a child - that is wrong.
If they don't mark the books for weeks - that us wrong.
If they teach the wrong syllabus - that is wrong.

And countless other things which could sometimes happen, which would actually endanger children's safety or progress.

But continue to mock them on the internet for minor spelling mistakes, and expect the recruitment crisis in teaching to deepen still further, to everyone's detriment.

it is 'Thank you'

No degree, no doctorate, no A-Level to my name. But it's still always.... Thank you!

I'd assume speed writing whilst dealing with other stuff. On occasion, although it is incorrect and I don't teach it that way, I join the capital to the following letter. Fortunately most parents live in the real world and work out that it's a small glitch caused by multitasking. That generous attitude helps me be more tolerant of the things parents do wrong or forget.