Poor grammar and spelling in online lessons (KS1)

[ScatteredMama82]

My youngest is Yr 2. Lessons are being uploaded to the school app daily, but the voice in the recordings is clearly not my sons teacher. I don't know who it is, perhaps a TA. In particular there are some glaring errors in the grammar and spelling in the English lessons. These are basic lessons, teaching children about nouns and verbs, adjectives and punctuation. AIBU to think the teaching material should be correct? Today's was along the lines of 'their vs there'. Part of me things they teachers are run ragged teaching online and in school at the same time, but I also think that they really need to be teaching the correct things! Would you say anything, or just correct it yourself and let it go?

YABU - it doesn't matter
YANBU - worth speaking to the teacher about it

Yes it does matter and it should be correct. Does it happen a lot? Could be an oversight so would raise it casually

Speak to the teacher. Your child is fortunate you've picked up.on it, but they're just potentially increasing social inequality for kids who aren't in that position.

Depends how many errors we're talking about. One lesson is a typo more tha a mistake per se, and teachers don't have the time at the moment to create new content for every single online lesson and proofread as much as they would like.

I've turned my 'daily mistake' into a game - 1st student to spot a mistake gets a round of applause. 😁

Please see typo in my comment above as example.

I would definitely raise it with the teacher.

YANBU. This would make my blood boil. But then I'm very pedantic myself and love reading books about grammar

If the materials being given to the kids are wrong, definitely get in touch.

We've had the same here with online work set for DD(5). 'Off' instead of 'of', 'there' instead of 'their'. It's only a couple of mistakes a week so not unforgivable, and I could never bring it up through fear of looking like a pedantic knob, but it does make me raise my eyebrows a bit.

We've certainly noticed a big gap between the teachers (perfect spelling and grammar bar the odd typo) and the TAs (lots of 'them ones' etc).

Part of me things they teachers are run ragged

People in glass houses...

(Actually OP i would complain, but your post shows how easy it is to make mistakes... although obviously the stakes are much lower than in teaching literacy to infants)

The odd mistake, I'd probably let go but if it's persistent and glaring, then I'd bring it up with the class teacher.

I believe that one head has sent a parent letter asking parents to ease off on the criticism if they don't want the school to have a major recruitment crisis due to everyone leaving!

If it's happening a lot, probably worth a mention - as it's not the teacher's voice, it's easier for you to say "I realise it's not your presentation, but I thought you should be aware that..." They may well be sharing out making the recordings, and if one of the people involved has dodgy spelling, perhaps they can work things so that someone else does a quick check of the powerpoint first.

The issue is teaching assistants courses dont focus on grammar and spelling. I used to teach them and the standard wasn't brilliant

Is the teacher around? Are they off ill and someone else is covering? Not ideal but might explain things?

If it’s just the odd mistake, then I would ignore it. However, if it’s a daily occurrence or happening regularly with multiple mistakes, then I would say something. Perhaps along the lines of “I’m not sure who is uploading the lessons but I don’t think they are being checked for errors beforehand.”

I noticed three in one day last week - including using there instead of their. Year R. I shouldn’t have been surprised as their school poster for open days uses “it’s” instead of “its”.

I felt really disappointed for some reason. Maybe lockdown is getting to me!

One of our TAs still gets to and too muddled up, and cannot spell.