Would you say anything to the school?

[HappySummerDays]

Neighbour’s dd had her first day of school today. Came out with a photograph of her holding up a sign - sign preprinted A3 size.

My name is xxx
Its my first day in Reseption
I am 4 year old

Neighbour is a bit 😳

Maybe a momento of her first day at school. Did everyone have one?

Why would you mention this to the school?

Whats the problem?

Came out of where?

So they can give remedial English lessons to whoever wrote the sign?

I presume your concern is about the misspelling and the punctuation?

Yes they all had one.
And yes - it’s a memento which is lovely.
My neighbour wonders would she be ‘that parent’ if she mentions the spelling and grammar mistakes.

It’s pretty awful to be honest, unless the child created the sign on the computer herself, they’ve managed to get a mistake into each one of the three lines!

@AlohaRose
Exactly.
It’s pretty bad that Reception was spelled incorrectly.,

What will you say?

Dear Headmistresses

It has come to my attention that one of my neighbours, Mrs Jones at number 22 Church Road can’t spell the word reception.

Yours sincerely

Mrs Bloggs (A concerned neighbour)

I would mention it actually and I say that as a teacher. It's one thing to make a mistake but to not notice it at any point when taking the pictures, printing them or handing them out is quite impressive.

Hopefully she knows someone clever who can edit the photo to change the spelling.

Why does the parent’s spelling abilities have anything to do with the school… very confused. She did a lovely memento that obviously means a lot to her, let’s not judge her on her spelling, or anyone else. Unless I’ve misunderstood, how a person is, kind / loving is what we should be prioritising instead of gossiping about spelling?

@Moveoverdarlin I think from what OP has said the photo / sign was provided by the school.

Assuming this is a school where they teach in English, you’d expect this kind of thing to have correct spelling and punctuation - it’s not setting a great example to the kids otherwise.

The child came out of school this morning with the sign.

The parent didn't make the sign the staff at the school did.

Who the hell looks at a family capturing a lovely moment and picks it apart like that.
Your neighbour should get a life.

Missed the massive drip.

@Vodkamartini3olives
The neighbour’s child started school this morning. The neighbour’s child was given the sign by the teacher as a momento of her first day at school. The neighbour is concerned about the spelling and grammar errors on the sign provided by the teacher.

If a teacher wrote that and the school endorses it, I would certainly comment that it’s not good practice to send out something with glaring errors.

Why are people incapable of reading? The sign was not created by the neighbour, it comes from school. As well as the spelling mistake, it has two other mistakes as well.

Oh god i thought it was a typo your end, 😂 they probably already know but printed them anyway!

It certainly doesn’t create a good first impression of the school or whoever wrote that sign!

People seem to be missing the point.
The school made the sign. The school can't spell "Reception".
My daughter had a certificate one year with a spelling error. I did actually point it out to the TA who said something like "oops that's a bit embarrassing".
Daughter then got the same certificate two years later. It still had the same spelling error 🙄

I'd say and give the teacher a chance to redo.

@HappySummerDays definitely get your neighbour to say something.
School standards really need to be better.

@Needmorelego
I’ll say to her that she should mention it.