spelling mistake in letter about spelling

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ds (y3) came home with a letter from school which was all about the new spelling policy for KS2 - from now on all the children will be given words to learn and will be tested regularly - so far, so good. However, sprinkled throughout the letter was the word 'practice' used as a verb

The problem with being able to spell is that mistakes like that leap off the page for me - it's just like hearing someone sing a bum note in the middle of a song.

I really want to say something to school about this, but ds says I'm a 'grammar neek', so I gather it would be embarrassing

I would write a letter to the Head. This wouls really annoy me.

When I was a teacher, the PTA sent out a letter with loads of mistakes in it. I got my tutor group to see if they could spot them all....

There's no excuse for it

would really annoy me obviously

Grrrrr at the bloody school. How are the children supposed to learn if the people teaching them don't have a clue and can't be bothered to proof-read letters about spelling, fgs?

And that attitude that anyone who cares about glaring errors is somehow an anorak is exactly WHY we have a generation of educated people who neither know nor care how to spell or use grammar or punctuation. If teaching fashions in the 70s and 80s had been a little more sensible, we wouldn't have this problem now.

I'd feel compelled to highlight or underline all of the errors and attach it to a letter to the head. As the head teacher will obviously blame the secretary, suggest that the English subject co-ordinator or the Head should check all letters which are sent to parents

BTW, edam I think the 70's/80's teaching methods must have been dependent on whether you attended an "old fashioned" school [like mine] where grammar, spelling and punctuation - and even handwriting, were given huge amounts of time and attention, or whether the school was hippy or "modern" or whatever tag we would apply to the more bizarre methods which were around at that time. As my school was so fantastically old-fashioned, I was able to learn Latin and Ancient Greek which fueled my already pedantic tendencies

God, I hated handwriting practice. And have terrible handwriting (although I blame my job - I use shorthand and computers, never hand write anything any more).

I was lucky to avoid any completely idiotic stuff but had friends who were completely stuffed by being taught the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Was astonished to learn when choosing A-levels that you couldn't study English Language, only Lit (which I enjoyed - but if you can do Maths and Further Maths, why not Lit and Lang?).

O-level Eng Lang didn't take you anywhere beyond 'verbs are doing words', really. I went to an academically selective high school but learnt more English from my grammar-school educated parents, who knew how to parse sentences and gave me a copy of Usage and Abusage.

Aren't you a woollyback, Gigglewitch? There can't possibly be schools that teach Latin in Sintellins, can there?

how very rude of you, carrot!

course i didn't go to school in sintellins
...even worse - in Liverpool!

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