to mark my child's report,and send it back having highlighted errors?!

[motherbeyond]

my dd is 3,and came home with her 1st report.the first thing was our surname was spelt incorrectly "mr and mrs galagher"! who spells gallagher with 1 L?

then,inside,there were several glaring grammatical spelling errors.

so,what do you think?is it arsey if i point them all out?

they're supposed to be teaching my child the basics...and yet they can't even spell simple words like,quiet...and use tense correctly

Bessie!

i'm in the 2 spaces camp.

it just looks so much nicer and highlights that you are indeed moving onto a new sentence, not just randomly adding a thought onto the end.

i hate typing, though, so i never bother with capitals unless i'm writing something formal and proper. (sorry pedants, it annoys me too)

my laptop does have caps,but since i'm typing this whilst dealing with a 2 and a 3 year old whilst 8 months pregnant,i can't be bothered to put the effort in!also,bibbity i'm actually an editor,so am aware of how to compose an email! but,like i said...just tapping away as quickly as i can.

my dd is nearly 4 and will start school in sept.she is at a pre school,and i know that they're probably badly paid,but reckon they should know the basics if they've to follow a syllabus,which apparantly they do.

fair enough,i won't mention the mistakes apart from our surname.

(my mum,who's a deputy head,thinks i def should...but she too is arsey!)

This is not the worst of it.

It's endemic

ooooooohhhh!

MN changed the 2 spaces to one space deliberately when i posted my reply!

i just copied it into word to check!
I know i put 2 spaces because i went back and counted them before i posted!

Aaaaargh !!!!!

tethersend, do you think that the TES left in the mistakes to make an example of the school?

Oh I cannot engage with someone who is complaining about spelling and grammatical errors yet can't be arsed to put the effort in. Exactly how does being 8 months pregnant prevent you from using the space bar?

surely you mean its endemic

or even its'

My initial hilarity at seeing the advert was swiftly replaced by a gnawing sense of horror that nobody had picked up that mistake, nickelbabe. Nobody at the school, nobody on the advertising team, nobody working on the website.

I feel a bit sick.

No MMM- it's. It is.

Apostrophe is correct, it's not possessive.

ha!ok bibbity don't bother then.you're right,i cannot be arsed to put the effort in.bad me!didn't realise you took it so seriously. being 8 months gone means ican't reach the space bar

Digging back into the dim distant past of my ergonomincs degree, I seem to remember that two spaces after a full stop make text easier to read and understand because it acts as another cue (on top of the punctuation) that one sentence is ending and another beginning.

It's like justification - some people like both left and right sides to be justified because they think it looks nicer whereas it's better to have just the left side justified, a ragged right side makes it much easier to read (and I think it looks nicer too )

Have to say I always use its for it is.

Although 'endemic' not the best choice of word, on reflection.

It is = it's.

Belonging to it = its

I took it seriously because I thought your op was serious. I thought you were concerned about the report. No skin off my nose.

Oh, and I am in the two spaces camp. It does indeed look nicer. And reminds me of a time when these things mattered and words weren't just rushed out to get a message across.

I can't remember how many spaces I use after a full stop. Ah..yes it's two!!

Two spaces

I too put two spaces after a full stop, I learnt this about 8 years ago :P

Most people can't not type without capitals. We have to put them in.

I have never had typos on reports. May be if you pay fees you get better checking at the schools. I suppose if you pay you're a paying customer and the state sector isn't the same (you will now tell me it's the most expensive nursery school in London).

Two spaces is right, one space after a comma. If you use word it will highlight it as an error if you only put one space. Not that an American piece of software should dictate how we write but rather it supports what I already believe to be true.

I'll get me coat.

P.S. YABU

I agree with MIFLAW. The convention seems to be one space now, it used to be two.

In response to OP; don't flag up anything other than the name misspelling.