Spelling on letters from school

[Polkadot1974]

We've had two from school this week using practise/practice wrong. Is it just the way spelling is now? AIBU to wish they were correct? Am I feeling ill and just being retentive? Does anyone ever point this out to school? I hope I haven't made any typos here...eek!

I'm pissed off at myself now for writing wrong instead of wrongly. I'm mortified. It screams at me now I read it back. Which, I rather think, answers my own question - I'm being a bit unreasonable. I might start a new thread however asking if IABU to wonder if there's a cure for colds, but that cold remedies are too big an earner for pharmaceutical companies to release it. I'd pay a lot right now for my ears to be clear and to be able to breathe. Yuk.

As a pp said there is no way of saying anything without looking a pompous arse.
If it was on a spelling list or something for the children then there would be an argument for pointing it out so that the teacher could be more vigilant. But I wouldn't be bothering to pat myself on the back that my spelling was better than whoever works in the office writing letters intended for parents eyes.

Teachers are there to teach correct use of English and spelling, among many other things. The huge numbers of instances of "init", "would of" and "that learnt you" contributed to our decision to leave the local primary and choose to try a voluntary aided school instead.

The dire attitude to spelling and punctuation unfortunately also produces crap editors of school books who cannot spot mistakes -- I have seen so many in reading books (not OUP, I hasten to add).

Like a few other basic things, correct spelling is important if you want to get a decent chance in life.

I'm certainly not patting myself on the back. Well unless it's to shift phlegm

And that should be number of instances -- we all do it, but YANBU to address it. I tried many ways and none succeeded.

An occasional spelling or grammatical error isn't 'low standards', surely?

Depends on the definition of 'occasional' I suppose.

This gas never happened to me. If it does I'll be looking for another school.

My daughter has been sent home with the following spellings this week :

their
there
they're
do'nt
was'nt
did'nt
I'll
I've

I've made her spell them the way they should be, but there'll be children learning them the wrong way if their parents haven't bothered to help or check their spellings.

DS2 had "maid" corrected to "made" in his work. It was history, about a servant so his spelling was correct.

Nunyabusiness - words fail me

Nunyabusiness

Oh my goodness that is unforgivable!!

I become unreasonably livid about many of the examples already recorded here. It seems to me that much of it is laziness, rather than a problem like a specific learning difficulty.

There is absolutely no excuse for the errors tshown by Nunyabusiness. Wasn't and didn't are contractions of was not and did not and the apostrophe replaces the 'o' in each case.

I don't mind if I am being pedantic. I think it matters and I think it is unforgivable for teachers to make those mistakes. They're pretty basic.

I'd hope that most of the errors would be spotted, but I would be tolerant of things that were obviously typos or failures in proofreading (very easily done when you are producing a lot of text, reading on screen, etc), or things that are acceptable in other countries, like practice/practise (only the -c version is generally used in countries like the US and Canada). And while, on the whole, I would expect UK spellings and usage, there are small things like that where a person from another country or used to reading a lot of text from other countries might not even know there was a difference, or think that both variants are correct. It's not always obvious what is considered a normal and equally accepted variant, vs one that is considered 'better' in the UK, etc. You can easily imagine the reverse - someone from the UK, for example, who prides herself on having excellent grammar, moving to the US and writing school newsletters using 'practise' and people there being unimpressed at her error, while she doesn't even realise that she is 'wrong' because the fact that the two countries have that small difference hasn't been something she's noticed in all her reading.

If you want to be labelled as 'that parent' bring it up.

I don't want that label crimson and love the school. Just wondered after two separate letters from different teachers both had practice/practise in them

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Ah. Is that the error? I think that is slightly more forgivable in terms of when to use either. What sentence were they used in? I know some people who know they are nouns/verbs still get a sentence like this wrong:
Without enough practice, she would not get better at English. thinking it should be an S.

I don't personally think that is a glaring mistake that requires feedback (even though it may be annoying.

Ah sorry! Didn't mean to paste the first sentence.

It's not pompous to correct the school.

What the school sends out is its public face, and it should be error-free.

I'm still working on getting my school to correct FAQ's to FAQs on the fecking homepage of the website.

At my son's primary, the end of week newsletter was always littered with spelling and grammar errors. Things like "here here" instead of "hear hear" and "dates for your dairies" (diaries).
I assumed it was typed up by the school secretary (English wasn't her first language). Eventually I mentioned it to the head and offered to proofread it for her before it went out. It turned out that the head typed it herself. She was not happy. Barely spoke to me after that.