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.)

God this gets to me too (a pedant on the quiet usually).

DS2 came home with a typed spelling list once, headed with the word dissappointment. To me, this was even worse, as the list had been produced on a word processor and even then, had passed scrutiny. I told ds the correct spelling but he as most concerned that if he wrote the correct spelling, his teacher would mark it as wrong because it did not accord with her version.

I am very naive. Dd is only 2 and I haven't experienced this yet.

I do feel we ought to try and do something though.

Oh boy. (posting immediately -- haven't read anything you may have said in reaction)

I haven't had the bad experiences with teachers that some have had on here and I have a profound respect for the job that teachers do. I couldn't do it. It's the curriculum past and present that concerns me, not the quality of teacher that implements it. There are good and bad, of course. But I'm old fashioned, basically. I like the old ways times tables by rote etc. I'm not keen on the NC and that's what they have to implement good teachers and poor teachers alike.

Iorek
do you mind if I correct you as we are in pedants' corner

never say "try and"

it is always "try to"

Yup, we have to look out for it and stick at it at home.

by the way fancy posting the other night
you're a bit of a brainbox

I don't mind at all, you are right of course. Normally I try to be grammatically correct when in Pedant's Corner, but I was too overcome with indignation and fear for the future.

ha ha bonk!

now that's funny

Fancy posting? Was it about the Victoria Sponge?

No -- it involved lepidoptera and pince-nez .. fancy posting on a pointless thread is always very noticeable.

The Victoria Sponge thread sounds gripping. May have to search through archives.

It is gripping, and ongoing. Someone's having trouble with their raising agents.

Perhaps they just made it up so they don't have to tidy their children's bedrooms.

I shan't visit .. even a Victoria Sponge thread could turn nasty these days.

School run calls.

Oh. My. God.

Only just stumbled on this thanks to Morningpaper.

I don't normally get exercised about this kind of thing as I am a "language is a malleable and ever-changing social contract rather than a set of fixed and immutable rules" kinda gal.

However THESE from TEACHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!! MN do not have a emoticon that inadequately expresses my .

The rasberry one really made me feel sad! Did you tell your daughter she is wonderful and clever and not wrong at all, Pofaced? Or did you go for the must-uphold-teachorial-status approach?

Had to join this one too. Ds in yr6 had exactly the same grammatical error, in this case "could of" from his teacher. The horror piled on when same teacher proclaimed that apart from a triangle the interior angles of all regular shapes add up to 360 degrees I had to correct her on that one, even though ds was sitting there at the time (how embarrassing for her )

I had to give a Statement to the police recently (as a witness!) and a very nice 15 year old plod carefully wrote down a precis of everything I said. I HAD to spend a couple of minutes correcting his spelling mistakes and punctuation.

I know, I know, but I really couldn't sign below anything that badly written.

And yes, it does matter, especially in schools.

UQD
wish you hadn't put this in pedants'

let's face it -- it's not pedantry!

I'm a secondary teacher which makes it worse when I'm correcting colleagues. I once had to go head to head with an English teacher who had put 'could of' on the board. She got really cross with me when I corrected it and pointed it that if one writes 'could've' the ''ve' is an abbreviation of 'have' not 'of'. She also bristled when I pointed out that evidently O-levels were better than GCSEs!

The problem is that people don't take the time to proof read their work, and then when they've made 30 photocopies for a class and realise the mistake, it is too expensive / time consuming to either correct the mistake or redo the entire thing.

It seemed to me that colleagues who had O levels could spell fairly well, and those that had done GCSEs had a problem.

Once again Scary I find myself wishing you taught at my children's school.

No Alison! pedal stall ???

I have just been given a short piece to correct and condense for the parents' association magazine of DD1's nursery. It's about how the 4 year olds in DD1's class are being introduced to reading and writing. It's written by the teacher. It's impossible to read.

Working in a nursery for 6 years, I often corrected my colleagues' spelling (probably to their great annoyance)

One of them would insist on writing "We played in the water troff" on the activities board that the parents read at the end of the day. I would sneak out and correct it as I couldn't bear to see it spelt that way.

Pedantic, I know. Oh well

It's not pedantic Anna. It's the way it should be! Good on you.

omg UQD, what are you going to do? the red pen? you MUST!

I'd have to correct it . My dd is a phonetic speller at the moment and I don't need her being set any more bad examples. I fumed for days after reading that my dd should 'practise' her numbers in nursery. I wish now I'd suggested that the nursery teacher gave some practice to her spellings (we hadn't hit it off but I decided to refrain).

"I will not except this level of homeework"
My dds teacher wrote this in her maths book last week, I scored it out with yellow highlighter and wrote a comment about prefering slightly untidy handwriting to a poor grasp on the English language.
Parents night next week should be interesting.
Soory about any mistakes in my post but my 2 yr old ds just wiped my original message and is trying to type with me.