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

[MrsSchadenfreude]

FFS!

aha!
saynomore, saynomore, wink wink

YANBU.
totally crap

YANBU.

It's a disgrace.

However, I would not point it out in red pen.

What age is your dd? I would mention it to your dd & suggest that when they discuss spellings that dd bring this up.

It's unacceptable in a teacher who is supposed to be helping a child learn the different meanings of spellings.

Surely it's a life-long habit? I was taught the different uses of the same spelling in primary school & would be horrified if I made a mistake in using them!

Sure it was the teacher?

I mark the kids books sometimes and I'm not even a qualified TA - I'm an unpaid volunteer getting experience before her post-grad course.

I think pointing it out in the book, in red pen or otherwise is really taking the biscuit really.

Seriously - has it done lasting damage? I doubt it; just tell your DD that it's supposed to be "Your" and give it a rest, IMO

I agree with UnquietDad, you're/your isn't a slip-up after the age of 6.

As bad as the ad I saw in a coffee shop: "Come and join are book club."

I am a teacher and have made such mistakes... I am famous for leaving the "c" out of excellent. By all means draw her attention to it!!

Hmmmmm

As an ex teacher I can't put my hand on my heart and swear I never made a spelling or punctuation error in the sometimes lengthy feedback I used to leave on students' work (I taught in FE so was marking GSCE and A-level essays).

But you know if I'd been guilty of habitual apostrophe crimes I would have been profoundly grateful if someone had gently pointed it out to me and shamed me into dealing with it. Kids lose confidence in teachers who do this sort of thing on a regular basis......

Last year my 7 year old daughter's class teacher was a 23 year old NQT. Very nice, very hard working. But I found some basic punctuation errors in her display work that she'd pinned up as a reference aid for the children. I took her aside and quietly pointed it out - made sure I did it out of hearing of the classroom helper, the children and the other parents. I would have hated her to have lost face or felt humiliated, but then on the other hand there was not way I was going to have her confusing my daughter about these things either....

fireflytoo - that's horrible, isn't it, the use of "are" for "our"? I moaned recently at a music journo for Oasis's (Oasis'?) use of it in a song called "Round Are Way", and he told me Noel was dyslexic. Fair enough, but surely someone should have spotted it!

My DD was once given a printed spelling list to learn ( in yr 4) for a test the following week, which I noticed contained a misspelled word ( I forget what it was now). When I queried the word in question ,in the nicest possible way ,the next day ("silly me, I thought X was spelled like Y": , the teacher said that she wasn't the teacher who'd prepared the list, but acknowldged the mistake. The following week, my DD did the test and I asked her what they'd been told the correct spelling was for the word I'd queried. She said that the teacher had reiterated the WRONG spelling as the correct one. When I went back to the teacher and asked her why she'd done this she said it would have been unfair on all the children who'd dutifully memorised the spellings as printed ....!

Oops typo,sorry ! "acknowledged"

This isn't a cod's challenge thread is it?

Assuming not, YANBU. This mistake is too basic to be passed off as just a slip. It's awful.

Hard to know how to deal with it. I would find the confrontation with the teacher very difficult. Maybe you could pay some local kids with spray paints to graffiti a guide to common errors over the school walls.

notapushy1 - that is a shocking story! I'm so depressed.

Terrible mistake for a teacher to make.
Agree with Lewis fan - could have been a TA.