Fancy a laugh? Come and see DS's spellings.

[JellycatShopkeeper]

OK, I'll just show you the interesting ones.

Amongst others he has to learn theif and hankercheif, this has come home on a photocopied sheet handed out in class.

He's Y5. I shall be speaking to the teacher.

I correct all the appalling spellings on the paperwork that comes home from the school, in red, and write insulting comments in the margins. I then throw it in the bin. It makes me feel much better, doing this.

That is a disgrace - absolutely inexcusable for a teacher to give this to children, regardless of age.

Sadly, having spent great deal of time working with many truly excellent teachers, we have often bemoaned the likes of these incompetents!

You must follow this up with the teacher in question.

Merrylegs - I would have done the same. Not unreasonable at all...

And Boffinmum...stop throwing the corrected letters in the bin...just return them. If you're worried about the fall out. Do so anonymously...
They need to be aware of consistent errors.

Our US school didn't do spelling tests. It was really nice They did do stacks of other homework though. They were more interested in teaching the children how to figure out spelling than learning stuff. It was interesting because dd has always been fine in tests but is very unsure if she has to guess, but ds has always been terrible at test and very creative at spelling (he is dyslexic). So it was nice to take the pressure off him, and interesting to see that the tests hadn't really helped dd at all. The teachers there seemed very surprised at the idea of weekly spelling tests.

Loving Merrylegs' pedantry there. Fantastic

I am a coward.

And I already had a tantrum in the office citing academic papers about best practice and professional behaviour, when the admin and teaching got particularly atrocious, so they think I'm a raving nutter anyway now.

However I am not the Head Teacher shielding a member of staff under investigation by the local constabulary for hitting children with bits of school equipment when in a temper, and lying to the LA to cover it up. I just bite my tongue and bide my time, and then when the moment comes ...

... I will be able to dance about singing 'ding, dong, the witch is dead' as the bitch head teacher leaves my kids' school once and for all.