Dd has brought home a couple of worksheets this year which the TA has done, and which contain randomly inserted apostrophes. I've mentioned it to the teacher in passing (I haven't made an issue of it) and she has said she'll keep an eye on things.
Last week two of dd's home reading books were listed in her reading record book with apostrophe errors - one was written down as "Ben Get's Cross" and the other was "The Missing Shoe's". As I usually do I corrected them in dd's book, because she likes to copy things down and I'd prefer her to be doing it correctly even at this stage.
Her teacher called me over this morning to tell me that she'd noticed the corrections, and that she's mentioned it to the TA yet again. What made my jaw drop, though, was her comment that "Actually it doesn't really matter at this stage, the children are too young for it to be a problem just yet".
Now, I freely admit that I have a thing about misplaced apostrophes - but I'm amazed that the teacher thinks it doesn't matter. Surely children take these things in even at this age, especially if (like my dd) they like to write and copy things down? Plus dd is at an age where teachers are nothing short of god-like; they are always right, and she will take their word over mine any day because they're teachers and they know everything.
So do I let it go? Is it really something that doesn't matter at the age of 5 and 6? I can't quite believe that can be the case - what do you lot think?