To think that DD1's teacher should not write "You're ideas are good" in her literacy book?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

FFS!

Is it a one off error? Has it happened before?

If one off, then s it really such a bog issue? Chances are it was a human error when rushing to mark all 30 odd books for literacy. Why the need to make the teacher feel embarrassed about it?

If not a one off then fair enough, go and speak to the teacher.

I wouldn't write in the book personally. I'd rather deal with these things face to face as adults.

Everyone makes simple mistakes sometimes, especially when busy.

It's in a literacy book, so YANBU at all. If it was in a science book then maybe I'd give the teacher the benefit of the doubt...

I have often wondered how to deal with this one, as the spelling lists dd was given to learn every week often contained spelling mistakes. But I never found a good way of pointing it out lightly enough not to cause offence, so just left it (all right, I'm a bit of a coward). So I just pointed it out to dd.

UQD is right, it's not the kind of thing it's easy to get wrong if you've a decent level of English.

It's not good you have to point out that it's wrong to your children, which means in effect saying look your teacher is wrong here. Nobody wants to do that, we want children to know they can trust their teachers.

well, when it comes to spelling this teacher can't be trusted.
Detention

Given her job I think it is inexcusable. I know that everyone makes grammatical mistakes now and again but if you are a teacher it's such a crass school-boy error that you would have thought they would be paranoid not to let such clangers slip in. Whatever happened to a bit of self-review.

this kind of thing makes me so cross
obviously need a life
but it really does!

Once you've alternated "your ideas are good" and "you're good at thinking up ideas" 29 times maybe your brain explodes at that point

What is all this bollox about a slip of the pen, an understandable error, etc etc? I would never in a million years be ABLE to write "you're ideas are good". It would be physically impossible to do it. Just as it would be impossible for me to spell my name wrong. It could simply never happen.

I personally would circle it in red and put a question mark and then exclamation mark beside it so she KNEW I'd seen and thought it was sloppy... in a LITERACY book as well! Come on, people!

I'm with the Princess.

(Am very worried about a rogue apostrophe I swear is lurking around DD2's classroom...)

If I did that sort of thing I kind of assume I'd lose my job.

I regularly sent back school reports 'corrected' in red pan to the head teacher (when mine were at primary school).

I think it's appalling that they even leave the building half the time.

or red pen even

And what's this 'she could have been doing 15 other things at the same time'? She was marking. It is part of her job. So I assume she was doing it in the same way that most teachers do marking: concentrating on the task in hand.

good sense prevails
what a relief

MI and I are STUFFED full of good sense
much as you are stuffed with Llama

Oops. Actually after you've marked 30 books, many of which may have spelling mistakes in, it's surprisingly easy to make mistakes yourself.

HOWEVER that is not excuse-making and it does need to be mentioned I think.

Remember as well that sometimes a TA might be writing comments in for the teacher, so that may be a possibility too.

don't get why peopole ask if they are being unreasonable here when of course the teacher made a big error. and of course they aren't unreasonable. get one of tehse a week am sure

and who really would correct it in red pen with exclamation marks etc etc
those people have too much time on their hands I believe

Well in primary schools teachers are encouraged to mark at the same time as discussing work with the pupil. It means more to the child if it is done at the time. So the teacher could easily be doing lots of things at once.

Of course I think that good spelling is necessary. It is crucial. But it could be an honest mistake, not an indication of poor literacy skills. I would make sure that the teacher really had a problem before dealing with the situation. Then I would discuss it politely with the teacher, not scrawl on the book.

It's not good spelling, it's good grammar.

That was a good point, MI

why thankyou pph
i credit the auntie style book

YANBU. Apostrophe crime is unacceptable! [pedant alert]

Teachers sometimes make mistakes

I know it's irritating and doesn't set a good example but, if it's a one off, give her the benefit of doubt and mention it to her. I'm sure she'll be suitably embarassed and it won't happen again (in your DD's book, at least).