Re-cycle or recycle?

[lookout]

Ds1 in Yr2 has come home from school several times with what I see to be errors in homework and spelling tasks. A few weeks ago he had 8 spellings to learn, all with pre-fixes. But many of them were not spellings I would use or have seen: re-cycle, de-frost etc. When confronted, the teacher said that these were acceptable spellings and she wanted the children to be aware that different people use different spellings

Equally, in the half-term homework suggestions, the spelling 'focussing' was used. Is this also an 'acceptable spelling'?

Many thanks in advance

[Seona1973]

This says that either can be used but the single 's' is preferred

[MirandaGoshawk]

Agree with Seona that focusing is preferable but but focussing is accepted. As for your examples - the teacher is bonkers. No-one writes de-frost or re-cycle these days.

[lookout]

Interesting. Thank you.

I don't feel quite so bad now for challenging the prefix nonsense. I told ds1 to just leave out the hyphen