Dare me, go on, dare me...

[marthamoo]

(Dh already is...)

It's a bone of contention with me that the letters which come home from school (ds1 for now, ds2 as well, as of September) invariably have spelling, grammatical and/or punctuation mistakes in. For example, the teacher who is Literacy Co-ordinator seems to have no idea how apostrophes work and has signed her name to several glaring apostrophical (OK, I made that up) errors...

Another classic this week: a covering letter and sponsorship form in aid of Art's Week. Three times it's written as Art's week, so not just a one-off typo.

I suggested to dh - and he is begging me to do it now - that on the sponsorship form (two incidents of the error) I add a note to the effect:

Always happy to support school in any way but I have to ask: who is Art and why are we supporting him?

Shall I....shall I?

ours always always puts 'loosing car parking facilities' instead of losing.

Drives me mad.

Don't think I would bring it to their attention though.

lol at jampots sad face in the margin, hilarious.

xx

marthamoo - so, did you???

Yes you must!!! I send the sluglet's school notices back corrected in red pen. In my defence, I tend to do this when drunk and dh delivers them because he enjoys stirring things up

I even wrote to the Lib Dems pointing out their campaigning material was full of grammatical errors.

well did you?

Think that you definitely should .... but it'd probably be wasted on them.

Did you ?

Garfunkel perhaps? you must do it.

oh go on go on go on go on
ROFL @ Art's education

didja didja didja??

so?

well?

Just correct the grammer and send it back in an envelope addressed to the author - I've done it before as DDs school secretary puts bloody punctuation everywhere its not meant to be and doesnt bother with it when it is necessary!!!

ha, ha! I would

did you

Blimey, I skive off shopping for the day (no kids....I'll say it again...no kids) and come back to a cacophony of MNers all sounding like Mrs Doyle in Father Ted..."g'wan...g'wan..."

Haven't decided yet. Would it be really terrible to do it anonymously? I quite like this particular teacher (despite her appalling punctuation) - ds1 had her in Year 1...I don't want her to know it was me !

My nickname at work is Mrs Doyle :o

G'wan g'wan you will you will :o

G'wan, g'wan, you know you want to! Goh an!

If you don't take issue with educators who can't educate (or punctuate!) the world will come to ruin!

Oh I would and do!
Sent a madical form back tonight,with snotty note (highlighted for extra effect) comalaing of poor grammar.
It was in Welsh.

And check out my typos!!

I loved the one sprayed on the shutters in a village in Durham - 'phuck off'! I had to smile when I first saw that one!

Irony or a decay in phonetics?

I am repeating myself here, but my favourite typo was as a nurse - huge tattoo emblazoned on the chest of a twenty something:

JIMMI HENDRIX

lol lol lol

After Kelly Holmes won at the Olympics,some numpty of a schoolgirl had had a tattoo of her done emblazoned with 'Kelly Homes'

'But I'm not bovvered.It's more or less thesame innit??'