Due to unprecidented demand ...

[sandyballs]

...... what a mistake to have on a school website. It's put me right off!

Due to unprecidented demand we have been forced to hold antoher open morning ....

Remember the website will be updated by a member of support staff and not a teacher as theyare busy teaching! Unfortunate but it happens.

Good Lord - mnistoo... you don't mean a thick school admin assistant do you?

I'm surprised no one has pointed it out - I update a primary school website and people practically run across the playground to point out anything I have done wrong

...we have run out of dictionaries.

In case anyone missed the irony in my earlier post, I AM a school admin asst.

At my schoolthe Head of IT, who is also the Assistant Head Teacher, updates the school website.

He doesn't have a dictionary either.

Sadly they are not alone - headline www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/GROUNDED/article-2532677-detail/article.html

efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.com/2010/09/unprecidented-pressure.html

failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2010/07/rabbinutes-unprecidented-new-jewish-id-demands-blocking-marriages-jewish-immigrants-say-234.html

spelling is a dying art.......

There are some very thick school administrators as well as lots of very intelligent ones! You get what you pay for and as many are very poorly paid, they are not the smartest.

Ultimately the head is responsible for what goes on the website. No headteacher can possibly expect parental respect when they can't be bothered to ensure that communications with parents are accurately written when they are responsible for literacy in their school. Why blame the school administrator or support staff - weren't they taught by teachers once upon a time!!

I agree with onceamai. Any communications leaving the school should be checked for spelling and grammar mistakes. We send our children to school to be taught how to spell and write properly. It's a disgrace if they then send out anything with spelling mistakes.

@ElbowFan

Thank you for helping me to improve my second language: Englisch!

Was the message okay, at least?

ontherock

Sorry ontherock I don't understand - what have I said???

Have noticed though that my second link has corrected their headline!!!

@ElbowFan

?and after correcting it I thanked you!

By the way, my language mixed grammatical understanding would make your sentence "Have noticed though that my second link has corrected their headline!" into "I have noticed though that my second link has corrected its headline!", may be even including a comma.

Would that be wrong in reference to British English?

All the best from Loch Ness.

Christian

Phew, thought I'd caused offence!!

Ontherock - You are absolutely right and my abysmal use of my mother tongue should be displayed on Pedants' Corner for me to be publicly flogged!!

I will try and post in proper sentences in future

Sorry Op we did not mean to hijack your thread