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Spelling/grammar mistakes by teachers

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UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 09:14

These INFURIATE me beyond belief. These people are supposed to be teaching our children,and yet we sometimes get letters home with incorrect spellings, weird grammar and a slapdash approach to punctuation - especially apostrophes.

Question is - what do you do?

It's very difficult to make a stand without looking like some sort of ridiculously pedantic fusspot.

And it's not just the letters - there, staring me in the face every sodding day when dd goes into her classroom, is one of those big commercially-produced, laminated A1 charts with everyone's birthday on them and "Happy Birthday" in several languages. Trouble is, it says:

"WHO'S birthday is it today?"

Give me strength. I almost wanted to tear the bloody thing down.

And the French on it is wrong, so for all I know some of the other languages may be too.

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singersgirl · 30/10/2006 20:02

I think this is an old thread that's resurfaced. But since it's here and I have a relevant story......

Went into DS1's classroom with him today as he was changing after sports club, and there was an instruction from the teacher on the board which included the word "seperate" (sic).

I understand that just being a teacher doesn't make you good at spelling, but "separate" is dinned into you at school, isn't it?

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