to be annoyed that there is a display featuring "hectagons" in DD's classroom

[morningpaper]

WTF is a hectagon

FGS

I'm totally in love with all the assertions of what in fact a hectagon is

perhaps the teacher is depressed

Check out the second definition given by Google. It's official, so it must ok.

Lol, xposts cornflakegirl.

LOL at the assertion that it might be a mistake, not a malicious error to confound the class

FGS what kind of conspiracy theorist are you? Doncha know there's a plot to ruin the mathematical knowledge of the country and to destroy the meaning of the apostrophe?

sorry, but in another effort to kill the thread, I feel it would be rude not to give you another They Might Be Giants song entitled "The secret life of six"

"The secret life of 6, is having fun
When everyone's asleep, he's in the sun
6 knows how to stand on his head,
6 knows how to stand on his head

And when 6 pretends he's 9
he feels older and wiser"

and I won't stop till you leave the poor old teacher alone. I got grade A at maths A level in the 80's and didn't need to know the right name for a 7-sided polygon to do any of the actual maths. In fact, why do we bother teaching the names of shapes with more than 6 sides anyway? It's pretty obscure stuff. You can do the maths without it.....maybe it gives those who can spell but can't do maths a feeling of REVENGE.....

DS's teacehr last year did not know the difference between 'to' and 'too'. Unforgivable, imo.
She would often get it wrong when writing comments in books.

lingle - I have just ordered that CD

I've made mistakes on the board which I've noticed when I've stepped back or when one of my Y6s have pointed it out to me. No way would I put up an incorrect display title! There really is no excuse for that.

As for needing 2Es (No apostrophe for plural, Romy )at A level; I've been qualified more than 10years and I needed 3Bs even then. It's even more difficult these days. Though I have to say that grades demanded say nothing about how difficult a course is but rather how popular it is.

I'm a primary teacher and know many others who are rubbish spellers and can't add!!!Years ago when I was training I was placed with a bitch of a teacher but took great pleasure in the fact that on a box of diary books she had the label 'dairy'. Idiot.

I had a student teacher working with me once who was the most dreadful speller.

I used to have to scrutinise all of her marking especially when I found her crossing out a correctly spelt word in a child's book and "correcting it" (incorrectly!)

OK so I know spelling is not everyone's forte but if you are a teacher who knows your spelling isn't great use a bleedin' dictionary!

If your spelling is that bad, then a dictionary is generally bugger all use.

Either you don't know that you can't spell a word, or you don't know where to start looking things up (and I'm speaking from personal experience here!)

All my work in school is spell checked. Some mistakes do slip through, I'm sure. But I can teach science!

LOL I was sitting looking at your OP like and your problem is...?

Then I realised you meant haxagons LOL. Oh dear to much to drink me thinks

Agree with MB. Also when typing it is no better. A wordcheck on the computer is only useful for those who haveome spelling capability to start with.

At school yesterday we noticed that a piece of card that has been used in the school for several years actually had an error on it - said 10*10 = 10, rather than 100. Completely error, nothing deliberately done. Just no one had picked up on it in all that time, and just read what they knew should be there. Everyone makes mistakes. It is now been corrected, not it has been spotted. But it tok a few years of use for it to go noticed!

@LittleBella - I used to go out with a guy who planned to teach children to count incorrectly - 1 for 10 etc - and also to teach differential calculus in place of, say, addition. He's currently an investment banker, so may yet be forced into teaching. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

I work at a University where they do teacher training. I am frequently shocked by the trainees' appalling spelling and grammar. If they don't understand it themselves, how can they hope to teach kids once they qualify? I am not talking about slap-dash email correspondence, but serious documentation is riddled with errors.

I agree. There is absolutely no excuse. They're TEACHERS. I make mistakes at work (bring down ambulance service with coding mistake, delete operating systems, cost companies millions etc) but I don't teach children the wrong thing.

I might possibly teach adults the wrong this (press that button, it'll be ok - let me teach you how to recover your computer etc) but I expect teachers not to make mistakes with their syllabi, syllabuses, syllabus (all technically correct, unlike MP's teacher).