This is not acceptable

[OhamIreally]

This is why I have walked out of an open evening.

"Do they? How can they possibly find the time during the day?"

• is what you should have said

You should probably climb down off your high horse because teachers do this intentionally all the time.

If it's making a statement about things that teachers do, it's perfectly acceptable.

My DD loves art, she often hangs out with teachers that draw.

Maybe s/he had her draw...ings in the drawer!
I would be cross at this one too.

Have you thought that there may be an actual point to this label? I.e. kids are supposed to notice things, it IS an educational environment after all

Sounds like they've dodged a bullet to be honest, you're being very dramatic

Ah should have clarified this was an open evening for prospective pupils and their parents.
It wasn't a "walk out" in the sense that I stormed off in a big fuss, but slipped off half way round the tour thinking I'd seen enough.
at "statement"! Yes, that's the only plausible explanation!

Is this real? Worst case scenario it was a genuine mistake made by one teacher (although could easily have been a joke or a label made up by someone other than the teacher), it's a ridiculous reason to not at least consider the school having made the effort to turn up in the first place.

Maybe it was labelled by a child who six months earlier was completely illiterate and there to show prospective parents how phenomenal the school was. Except you'll never know because you left before that bit.

Well titchy if that was the case the child was still illiterate and the school far from phenomenal.
As for the school having "dodged a bullet" heaven forbid a parent would want to send their child to a school where they would actually learn to read and write.

Hahaahahahahahhaahhhaha

This made my day. I just love parents like you.

OP I agree with you. We went to a parents' information evening and the head (as did I and many others I suspect) spotted a small mistake on one of the teachers' slides. He got up, went to the computer, took the slide down, changed it and put it back up. To me that said something about his standards. He could have just ignored it as it was a pretty small thing and it isn't an error everyone recognises, but he didn't. And right there and then, I knew it was right of us to have our child at that school.

yeah right
walked out over a misspellt word good on ya OP

He could have just ignored it as it was a pretty small thing and it isn't an error everyone recognises, but he didn't. And right there and then, I knew it was right of us to have our child at that school.

And you see I would have rejected that school - as I'd have taken it the Head was bullying and pedantic, so likely to have unhappy staff.

School had a lucky escape there. One less of "those parents".

It's a great system actually. Might mention it to the head....

I’m a former teacher. I’d be extremely unimpressed by that, too.

My DDs English teacher has a poster on the wall stating ‘Let’s eat Grandma!’. She isn’t advocating cannibalism though, merely highlighting the fact that commas save lives.

It will definitely be a joke or a class activity and you've just been utterly stupid.

OP perhaps it was a joke. I those circumstances I think would have asked the teacher. If it wasn’t a joke then I would react the same way as you. I think it’s really strange that some pps are suggesting you are a potentially difficult parent because you expect an English teacher to have a basic grasp of grammar. I must be from a different planet to other posters as I would not tolerate this at all. I find it difficult to understand how standards could be so low.

Also a pp stated that labels don’t usually have apostrophes. Again, I must be from a different planet. Of course words printed on labels should also have apostrophes. This is basic grammar.

@MollyButton It's neither bullying nor is it pedantic. It is common sense, the correct thing for a teacher to do. He runs a school. He is supposed to care about things like that. A teacher that doesn't care about the little things doesn't need to be teaching my children. No doubt there are many parents out there who think grammatical errors are okay. The OP isn't one and neither am I.

@MyCruiseControl - how do you know that teacher doesn't have dyslexia?
But then I care more about kindness that Grammar - so we would be looking for very different schools.

Could easily have been labelled by a TA, who are not paid enough to need to be degree educated.
I think you'd best go private OP.

You don't have to have a degree to be able to use basic grammar and spell simple words correctly.

I used to be a TA in a primary school. Signs put up by other members of staff that I remember correcting included 'Math's Resources' and 'Stationary Cupboard'. Neither was a deliberate joke or intended to prompt the (KS1) children to notice the mistake.

Everyone makes the occasional mistake, but if something is visibly on display and either nobody has noticed that it's wrong, or they have but don't think it important to correct it, it definitely reflects badly on the school.

@MyCruiseControl
@MollyButton It's neither bullying nor is it pedantic. It is common sense, the correct thing for a teacher to do. He runs a school. He is supposed to care about things like that.

He could have checked it before it was shown to parents. He decided that changing it in front of the parents was important, I agree with Molly that is not the right way to treat a teacher.

Seriously, you have to go private to expect high standards of literacy?