Should I speak up about this and if so, how?

[brenda21]

I work in a small pre-school.
The boss, while being very good at her job, is not very good at spelling (spell-check normally does the trick!) and uses random apostrophes all the time. Mostly I can turn a blind eye, but she's just done a realy lovely display of paintings and photos with captions such as "Tom like's to ride on the trike" or "Mary is wearing pink shoe's"

Of course the children can't read them but the parents can and I just find myself cringeing.

Do I say something and if so how to not sound like a complete nasty. I really like her and don't want it do anything to harm our working relationship.

Can you offer to help her with the displays?

Can you print up new captions and secretly replace them or has she written them on the paintings?

Employ Lynne Truss's favoured method of waiting until it's dark, donning a balaclava and spraypainting them out?

Seriously, this would drive me mental too. I would just have to tell her, I think.

I think I'd be tempted to say in a light-hearted way that a parent has commented and does she want you to re-do them? Because some people are pedantic and they notice these things blah blah blah...
Hopefully she won't take offence then. Although I don't know what I'd do if she asked for names

Glad I'm not being unreasonable about this.
She does, if she has time, ask me to cast my eye over letters for spellings etc so she knows she can't spell!
As for this display, I didn't know she was doing it until it was done(I was on a course) and the sheets are all laminated!

And I do know parents notice. Guess I'll just bite the bullet and mention it. Or maybe see if I can change them, and tell her afterwards in a "in passing" sort of way.

Thanks for the input!

Infuriating as it is, I'm not sure that it's worth falling out over as the children aren't going to be rendered illiterate for life by it. It's difficult to know how she would react without knowing her: some people wouldn't care either way and would be happy for you to edit the captions; others might be grateful for your help - and you know how the rest would respond.

Oh, didn't see your last post. If she's asked you about spellings, fair game.

Get a large piece of sticky tape, write "No unnecessary apostrophes" on it and stick it over her mouth.

That is my proposed considered and, I think, reasonable response.