Teacher ticks word 'brang' - I give up

[wheelsonthebus]

My Y1 dc keeps using the word brang instead of brought. I keep correcting it. But when I saw one of dc's exercise books, the teacher had ticked the word "brang". (holds head in hands emoticon). Should I bring this sort of thing up with the school or just gloss over it? It's not the first time this has happened...(ie, it's happened with other words)

Chocciechoc - then shouldn't the teacher have either commented on the content of the writing or corrected the spelling. How should this be done?

My DS is in Y1 and I havn't seen any comments on his writing - I can see that for myself, and if I can read it all I am very pleased, but on the other hand I would expect him to spell words that have been in his spelling list correctly.

I think perhaps the teacher should have written 'great sounding-out, make sure it is the correct word', or something like that as it's homework and parents read it. But marking is for the sake of the child to understand where he/she has gone wrong and they may understand that a simply underlined word, for example, means wrong spelling. Depends on the school's marking policy. A smiley face means a lot more to a year 1 child than a long comment.

No, not at home, Chocciechoc, I teach full time.

It is appalling, but until better pay for teachers is put in place, then obviously it is unlikely the the general standard will rise. If you've excelled at school and have great exam results and a good grasp of a wide range of subjects, are you more, or less, likely to become a teacher? Or would you perhaps consider a job that pays better and will be within your reach based on your skills? I think only a very few people like this, who are exceptionally dedicated to the idea of teaching, would choose to teach rather than go down another route. Shameful really, as surely our priority as a country should be educating children, who are the future of our country.

I would have written the correct word regardless, whatever the learning objective. That wouldn't preclude smiley faces, however, for something they had done well.

I think the scary thing is, the teacher probably thinks that brang is right. It wasn't that she didn't want to correct the child (which I can sort of understand) but that she actually uses it!

"I think the scary thing is, the teacher probably thinks that brang is right."

Exactly. Which is why asking about it wouldn't do any harm.

"most of the dead-wood in teaching, which I have witnessed enough of, has mostly gone"

That's a more than a little naive, I'm afraid, especially if you read some of the stories just here, on MN.

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