AIBU to expect my child's Year 1 teacher to spell correctly?

[PerkyShark]

DD is 5 and currently in Year 1. Every Monday, we get a new spelling list for a test on Friday, which I think is a great idea in theory. However, nearly every week there seems to be a glaring spelling mistake on the list.

A couple of weeks ago, "tarpoon" appeared instead of "harpoon." Last week, we had "Artic" instead of "Arctic." I brushed these off initially, but this week, THREE words are incorrect: "micture" (mixture), "nuture" (nature), and "murcury" (mercury).

I approached DD's class teacher politely to point this out, assuming she'd be mortified and promise to ensure it wouldn't happen again, but instead she shrugged it off, saying "human error is to be expected."

I'm also starting to worry, as these spelling lists are the only written examples I see regularly. It makes me question whether the teacher is consistently spelling things incorrectly during lessons or, even worse, not picking up on spelling mistakes my child might be making in her work.

AIBU to think that consistently misspelling words on weekly spelling lists undermines the purpose of the tests and possibly the children's learning? Or am I just being overly precious about something that doesn't really matter?

@InscrutableFox sorry, I didn't mean for it to cone across that TAs didn't have the intelligence to spell properly! I've worked as a TA and most I've met are incredible... it was more a point to say I wouldn't be scrutinising a TAs spelling in the same way I would a teacher, who is paid much more than a TA.

I am begging you to please pull them up on this. Don’t let that monstrosity slide. We be? That's outrageous

Why would Arctic and mercury appear in a 5 year old's spelling test?

Primary teacher here. That's absolutely awful! I am not impressed at all. Or should I say, impresed. 😂

My DDs are adults now but I was one of those parents who did correct letters in red pen and send them back. It did not endear me to the admin person, but the Head did thank me.

To the poster who claimed that private school teachers earned more than their state school counterparts, please check because this is most definitely not always the case. I work in a (lovely) state secondary school. My new Head of Department came from a private school where he had been for the last 4 years as HoD. He actually received a pay rise when he joined us.

There's a private primary in my area which, at one time, was paying half the state school salary. I knew 2 or 3 teachers who worked there because it was easier, they came in just before school started and went home just after the pupils.

This isn't new. My Mother was "that" parent way back in the early nineties when I was at school as my secondary school English teacher couldn't spell for toffee.

In his defence it was pre-desk top publishing of worksheets with spell checkers became routine. In retrospect I wonder if he was dyslexic. He was actually a really good classroom teacher and made English engaging to a very mixed bag of pupils.

In the end it became a running joke between him and my Mum and he enlisted her to proof read the school magazine for him.

My mother had very few academic qualifications but she was a ninja proofreader - she read every academic essay my siblings and I wrote for school and University. She also used to read workstuff for my Dad (engineer). She was a very good barometer to test if you had explained your concept well and my brother (barrister) was only bemoaning her loss a few weeks ago when he was toiling over a written opinion.

YANBU - that's appalling, but I'm not that surprised. My dc used to correct their primary school teachers' spelling!

I have co just read about a secondary school where a third of the children who start are illiterate.

You are right to complain.