To think teacher should know the difference

[Marey9]

Between there, their and they’re? Just wondering as a few posts have gone up by the same teacher not using them correctly. For example yesterdays was ‘we are proud of there behaviour’

Absolutely shocking.

That's really bad tbh, if a teacher gets that wrong.

Of course they should. I would be very unhappy if someone teaching my children couldn’t tell the difference between those three words.

So bad.

Could have been a typo.

Surely you mean "could of" 😉

But if it's a few times I'd have to say something.

Sometimes on social media it's the office staff responsible but even so.

It does have the teacher/staff members name above each post. She is definitely a teacher!

I would lose confidence in their ability to teach children anything tbh if they are ignorant on the basic use of English.

It's the same for me when I hear somebody who works in HR pronouncing it Haitch R instead of Aitch R. I lose all confidence in their ability to do their job when they can't even pronounce their job title properly. I realise this is " judgemental " - to use the MN buzzword- but that's the effect it has on me.

It's just an acceptance of the dumbing down of standards. Mediocrity is seen in every profession, but this one is particularly grinding.

Also, I’m not sure it was a typo. As the post did have one. It said ‘we be able too’ instead of ‘will be able too’ which was corrected. But the ‘there behaviour’ remained.

"able to" surely? Another typo? 😀

I can just about tolerate a senior school specialist, such as a physics teacher, making a minor SPAG error, but it is (or at least it should be) completely unacceptable among primary school teachers.

Jeez, she made a mistake. I sometimes, do when I'm dictating it in my head and fingers trying to keep up. Doesn't mean I don't know.More worrying was our headteacher who suggested children could 'lend' a bike instead of 'borrow'

That’s not the same though. Different pronunciation of H isn’t wrong / incorrect.

Also, 'yesterdays', should have an apostrophe. Do you not know how to use apostrophes, or do you occasionally make a mistake because you are human?

Well, yes, you’re right. But my question is regarding a teacher

Well i beg to differ about the mis pronunciation because it equally shows up a lack of basic education on the part of the so called professional.

when were not teaching it dont matter about grammer init.

But it isn’t mispronounced - different accents / areas pronounce H differently. Doesn’t mean there’s a lack of basic education.

Is this on a school website?

To be honest, as a retired teacher who used to be responsible for proof reading items on our school website, I'd want to be 'that parent'. However I'd try to do it diplomatically.

I 'd write to the head and say that I'm concerned that there are frequent spelling errors from teachers on the website, and that it does give a bad impression of the school. If I was feeling braver, I would also say that is somewhat worrying for parents to see their child's teacher making errors with words such as there and their.

But the point is you made a mistake, although you presumably understand it wrong. So why do you think teachers do not make human errors like every other person on the planet?

What job do you do then? Just curious as your grammar is appalling - no capitalised 'i' and mispronunciation spelled as two words? Tut tut. Can you provide a list of professionals whose grammar, punctuation and pronunciation we should be nit-picking?

Also the pronunciation of H is regional, there's no correct way to say it.

Are you the parent who complained that the remains of my East Midlands accent (after 40 years in the South East) meant
that my 'a' in words like bath and grass was too short for her liking?

Where I’m from it’s pronounced both ways. And is taught in school various ways. It’s like zed and zee. Both are correct.