Reeling in horror - teacher has put a MUST OF in DS's reading record book

[UnquietDad]

It's there in black biro. In the comment on his record book. Apologising for missing a page and saying they "must of" skipped over it last week.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH!!!!!!!

From a teacher.

From

a

teacher

FFS!!!

It's like finding a turd in his lunchbox.

Help me, pedants. You are my only hope.

(Glances down corridor, bends and removes tape.)

UQD. Tell her it doesn't matter because you were bored of the book anyway and she should of given you a more interesting one, innit.

LOL at this lot. specially turd in lunchbox / musofa dictionary / red-pen correction.

Must tell you - one of my English teachers wrote in my (high school) exercise book
"Don't abbreviate"
it was an absolute classic.

OMGoodG

you have to correct it

with a RED PEN

in the book

which she will read

hopefully with mounting horror

and then will never look you in the eye ever ever again

Could you do it though, Twig?
I just couldn't. I would be too embarrassed for her and it would end up being me who was avoiding the eye contact because of the shame I would be sure she was feeling.

DS had a 'loveley' in his book recently!

I was close to redlining it on two counts:

1. Please try to use more descriptive words (which is what she usually writes) and

1. Please try harder with the spelling of common usage words.

But I chickened out

Mmm.. go and see the head teacher.... but I didn't do anything when poor DD aged 7 came home and had to write out "rasberry" 5 times because she had written a story involving a raspberry!

pofaced
I would have, I mean of, gone in and demonstrated said rasberry. Loudly.

UQD.

It reminds me of a hideous occasion when a good friend asked me to be a referee for her application for teacher training. She gave me the filled in application and it was full of 'would of' and 'should of', among other shockers. And there was I, poised with a bottle of tippex, wondering, should I? Or should I not?

I can't remember what I actually did in the end. She didn't get the place, you will be glad to hear. So it couldn't of been her teaching your DS. I can sleep easy about that at least.

I had a similar experience when ds1's teacher wrote

Thanks for the lone of the book.

Horrid.

actually, I am not ed. I wish I was.

Dd1's English teacher recommended a book for her to read - he wrote it down for her so she wouldn't forget it.

It read "ABOMONATION"

I was abominably annoyed by that.

oh, pmsl at "don't abbreviate"

Frightening!

I don't suppose ds can get away with correcting the teacher x3? Or write a message back containing the correct usage?

GW, I like writing don't abbrev., the pupils remember the inconsistency, as you did .

just got an email to parents from my son's teacher about a walk they're doing. She asks us to pack high-energy food like 'nuts and banana's. Oh dear.

Happens all the time, and when you correct this , colleagues look at you as if you have two heads, and mutter 'why does it matter?'...reply 'because we have to teach cross-curricular literacy doh!'

Another favourite mistake, and one that I spent 15 minutes correcting at the beginning of lessons is the difference between

there
their
they're

and

your
yore
you're

Some teachers get that wrong constantly as well.

scaryteacher - makes me wonder whether there isn't something to be said for home education after all

"must of" like "finding a turd in his lunchbox. "

Surely quote of the week!

Normally these pedantry threads are just a light diversion, but I truly am horrified by this. Especially scaryteacher's report of colleagues saying "why does it matter?"

I am speechless. Turd in the lunchbox analogy very apt.

What can we do?

I am flitting between horror and falling on the floor laughing . Perhaps MNHQ could get together a book of teacher cock-ups and end them to the Secretary of State for education (and copy a few newspapers into it too!).

I had a cracker the other day when I overheard a teacher at a local school. She was fed up of a parent always getting on her pedal stall about things that don't concern her.

or perhaps even send them to the Secretary of State (and no, I am not a teacher....).

Yes Alison - surely we could do something like that. I find it so depressing.

I'm that you're .

Not from a teacher but from the LEA in sample Terms of Reference for Curriculum committees of school governing bodies:

"To...advise the governing body on it's statutory obligations regarding the National Curriculum."

Why are you that we're , stuffit?

I've seen a lot of it Iorek. Ticks on wrong spellings, bad spelling and punctuation by teachers, work uncorrected.
If you think about it, the dumbing down of the curriculum began some time ago. Literacy is one of the better primary areas, but a lot has been lost in the name of the child's self-esteem -- and I'm sure most of us have come across the argument that the story and flow are important, not the handwriting and spelling and punctuation, imagination is more important than knowledge etc. I just think by now a lot of today's teachers will have had that education and they are now passing it on. They are of good faith, and well intentioned, and work hard, but if you weren't taught it in the first place how are you going to hand it down to the next generation?