Should I correct a teacher?

[Sadgirlonatrain]

In my son's recent geography homework, one of the questions on the sheet referred to the decline of coal mining in the North East.

"How would this of effected the area?"

No wonder the use of 'would of' is so widespread now, never mind the incorrect use of 'effected.'

Would you say anything to the school?

That's the way a normal person would do it. In real life.
Sadly, this is MN, so half the posters are banging their heads against the roof and making placards to get the teacher sacked, while the other half have decided the teacher has a disability.
I'm the first (as many roof hitters on this thread will know) to call out twattery regarding grammar correction- when posters do it on here, on a thread, just to show us how clever they are, and how thick the poster who's made the mistake is- but sure, as a teacher and parent, I'd point out that these materials were wrong. Without harming heads, roofs, or placards.

sorrynotathome · Today 13:42
I know a TA who always writes “know” when she means “now”. It’s so confusing!!

Know

if any howlers like this were brought home from school by my children I used to correct it in red pen and return it. It’s disgraceful

There is something worse than being wrong...

TBH I have seen worse

I would simply ensure my child's work was grammatically correct though

There are many things wrong with the education system, someone dropping the ball and using poor grammar isn't by any means the thing people should be getting het up about

What an unpleasant and futile thing to do

What about the children whose parents can’t or won’t do this?
Children who will trust the teachers to teach them correctly but will sadly be let down.

Poor grammar and other English skills are rife with today’s teachers.

As an ex teacher I have had a parent write a polite note which corrected a spelling mistake I had made. I just owned up and told the pupil ‘well done. Apologise to your dad!’

Much ado about nothing, I doubt any of the kids would give it a second glance. Teachers have enough do without petty parents picking up on minor mistakes.

Why ? A teacher has demonstrated a really bad grasp of grammar, which is being passed on to the students. She’d be an idiot not to complain.

Thank you. You're right of course. Sloppy of me. But at least I'm just lazing in the sofa with my phone, and not working!

And this is the reason such mistakes are commonplace. Do you not attach any importance at all to correct grammar and spelling of the English language ?

Yes, I’m that parent too! I wouldn’t be able to let that go 😳

Hear, hear

Would of is not a minor mistake. As someone else said, 'would of' in a letter of application, would probably see it binned. It speaks of a larger level of ignorance than a typo or a spelling mistake.

I am not working either. I am having a pajama day. There is no comma after phone either. Just to let you know.

Expecting correct grammar and spelling from a teacher is 'odd'?

And it's not the OP who's the idiot. Children copy what they see and the teacher should be modelling correct English.

It's not as though it's a typo.

Oops! Higher level of ignorance!

So tricky. You have to keep it light. They may be teachers but with bad grammar so widespread they have maybe been similarly affected by a poor education system. So I think if you get on well with the head of department a light conversation is due. Pointing out the error with "emerge" will keep it from getting too heavy, perhaps. The problem is that given the support that society rightly gives to dyslexia it is important not to shy away from using the correct word in the correct way. We forgive spelling mistakes, but language is to communicate even the mostt subtle and complex of ideas, and does so by being used correctly.

Well if the children aren't being taught correctly then they wouldn't know to question it, would they?

And it's not petty.

Of course you should let them know. In a polite and tactful way.

If it was one mistake I might leave it, but two in the same sentence ...

It’s not petty. It’s incredibly important

Good example of Muphry's Law! In the UK it's spelt pyjamas. 😉Just to let you know.

You will achieve absolutely nothing by complaining. This is a direct result of teaching not being a particularly desirable job at the moment. The Dept of Education could write a White Paper on teacher recruitment. They should call it ‘You get what you get and you don’t get upset’.