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!

School is probably the only context in which I'd say something about poor SPAG.

Pengggwn, I don't understand why you think honeylulu was tactless. Why do you think this is okay? Genuinely curious.

Yes, it is their public face, but is that really your problem?

Yes. I work there. I represent it.

It's not acceptable. We have a number of teachers in our school who also make mistakes when they speak: "we was", "not good for me stats". It annoys the hell out of me. I've never said anything as it feels very personal.

Pengggwn. Sorry. Too early in the morning. Why do you think that it's okay for the head to be writing newsletters that are full of errors?

Basic SPAG is one of the few things that I expect teachers to model correctly and deliver consistently. I'm surprised that some teachers think that this is negotiable. Even given the competing pressures that they are under.

Practice/ practise is a buggar as a lot of autocorrects default to American spelling. Also buggar took about 4 goes!

I used to correct school letters with a red pen and send them back. The HT didn't bother to read anything that was sent out (too busy posing for the local paper for anything and everything) and the school secretary was a lovely lady, but ... He was less than pleased when I was invited to go along on the school outing one year and the invitation was for the wrong date in the wrong year! I replied that I had no idea what I would be doing five years in the future. But when your dyslexic DC can see the spelling mistakes on the letters they are bringing home, there's something far wrong.

DS1's school report one year was so full of spelling and grammatical errors that in one subject I genuinely couldn't understand what the comment meant. I corrected the report (in red pen ) and complained to the school because they were giving such a poor example to my son. I received a grovelling apology and later reports were much better.
I regularly recruit (IT industry) and when I receive a CV with spelling mistakes or basic grammatical errors it goes in the bin - when you receive 20 or 30 CVs for a role it is an easy way to reduce the numbers (and yes - I rejected a CV yesterday from a UK citizen that, amongst other errors, contained the phrase 'full UK driving license')
I apologise in advance that Sod's law means this post is bound to contain some errors. My only excuse is that there is a fundamental difference between a hastily written addition to a mumsnet thread and formal written communication to a third party which can (and should) be easily checked in advance.

Sorry that Pengggwyn thinks I am a "pompous arse". I think that letters from an educational establishment should use correct spelling and grammar and if that makes me pompous, so what? Like Grumpyoldperson, I was on the recruiting panel for a new Head at the aforementioned primary school. One of the CVs looked very impressive and my fellow governors were keen to interview the candidate. I could not agree to this because they had spelled the name of the school incorrectly. If you cannot get the small things right, how can I trust you with the education of my children?

To the poster whose school insists that support staff check teachers' letters: unless they have a background in proof-reading or other such skills, I would be really annoyed. Some people have an eye for spotting errors in spelling and grammar and others do not. In a good school, those people should be asked to check anything before it is sent out to parents or put into the public domain. My immediate line-manager and I are both pretty good at writing letters without errors, but we always ask the other to check everything before it goes out. It saves time, hassle and frees up our admin colleagues to do their own work.

Lol Penggwyn, after I had bigger, beggar, bagged, and something else I had lost all ability to see the wood for the trees!

I recently found two grammatical/spelling errors in school communication. One was from my DD's homework book from reception where the teacher had attempted to decipher my DD's paragraph and had written "I went to my nannies house". I'll let that go though because maybe she though DD had gone to both houses.

The second was on school communication directly to parents where her yr 1 teacher had written "of" instead of "have" think "who would of thought it?" That one did have me reaching for the wine.