Teaching assistant's spelling error in reading diary?

[susannahmoodie]

Wwyd? DS is in reception and has brought his reading diary home. It has a comment from the TA that says :"Well done [ds' name] you new all the tricky words and I can tell you have been practising your numbers as you new 1-20 too".

I'm not teacher bashing- I'm one myself! But not sure of primary protocol here.....

I think you should quietly mention it as otherwise whenever you dis looks at his Reading Record book he will see that misspelling. At the very least see that your ds knows the difference between new and knew.

NB the autocorrect of ds to dis!

It is really funny that I am a bad speller, but my DS is a great speller.
He often correct my spelling mistakes, but I don't think he thinks I am uneducated or stupid.
So, spending time with bad speller doesn't always make a bad speller!
TA who spend time to write a lovely, encouraging comment is just so precious.

Has the OP ever come back?

Pranmasghost how will an arsey parental comment inform anyone about what the child might or might knot no.

The spelling mistakes were shocking at dd previous school.

It's a difficult one. Dp highlighted some appalling mistakes on a homework hand out once. I don't think it went down well.

I can see where you are coming from Op. It was quite an eye opener when dd started Reception.

Some of the replies on here are shocking. Have you never made a mistake? Ever?
And don't even start with the "teachers/TAs are supposed to be literate" thing, everyone who came through the education system is supposed to be literate.
I personally have been known to skip the "k"s at the beginning of "know", "knew", "known" and yes it could well be because I'm dyslexic and dyspraxic but I do know how to spell these words, I just do it wrong sometimes. I generally notice and fix it, I find it really annoying because I can spell these words. I try to remind myself by trying to think to myself "k-now" or "k-nee" that kind of thing.
Just accept that people make mistakes, and that is what this obviously is.

I'm a bit fed up of know it all parents tbh
People make mistakes

Thanks for all replies! An interesting debate has been had in my absence....I think I will let it go as one off but not if it becomes a regular thing. I do understand the value of a TA and the myriad of vital tasks they perform....

It wasn't the TA in our case it was the teacher.

Spelling mistakes on a weekly basis with a crescendo of....

'Could you please list your DC intersets and what they enjoy doing in there spair time'

I actually believed it was an April fool.

It was October

I'm a TA. Would parents be happy to have their mistakes corrected in reading diaries, because I see absolute howlers every day?!?

That's a good point, but parents may have varying levels of literacy, and they're not being paid to teach their dc...

Well I wouldn't choose a dentist with no teeth....

Only1scoop, so the worst spelling mistake that teacher every made was to type two letters around the wrong way?! My gods! I take it you have never made such an error in your office work/got a meeting time wrong/been late to pick up your child?

There were three mistakes there. Just in one sentence. We had already had many other spelling mistakes sent home.

This was the educator tasked with helping to teach my DC to read and write.

I didn't make the choice to educate children. My spelling isn't the best.

Because many English spellings are highly illogical, people keep slipping up. Educating children involves far more than just teaching them to spell.

Anyone who hates seeing spelling mistakes should campaign for modernisation of the English spelling system. For as long as it stays as it is, people will always slip up occasionally.

Just think about the madness of having 335 words with different spellings for different meanings, like knew/new, while 2500+ get by perfectly well with one (bar, bit, post...), and 113 pairs of different words have to share one spelling (e.g. minute, second, read).

Such contradictory nonsense inevitably confuses people from time to time, be they teachers, TAs or anyone else.

I think the occasional mistake is inevitable and quite acceptable.

What we were seeing wasn't.