School reports - what would you do?

[FernieB]

My DD's brought home their half year reports last week. Both from the same teacher and both were full of spelling errors and sentences that made no grammatical sense. Would you say anything to the school or not?

Definitely. I am a teacher - how can your dds be expected to take pride in their own writing and spelling, when the teacher won't/can't?.

Def say something .... that's terrible.

give us examples.
Personally I wouldn't complain unless the errors were many and horrendous and I couldn't actually make any sense of several sentences in each report.

Were they hand written?

If I said something it wuld be directly to the teacher. I amagine she would be so embarassed seh would enver make a mistake again.

i'd be tempted to get a red pen,mark it,then return it...tempted,but maybe wouldn't do it!

give us some examples so we can be super judgy pants.

Yes I would, you are unlikely to be the only one with a badly edited report. Better to point out how unacceptable it is and enforce change than be angry year after year.
Go to the head, it's a reflection on the school as well as the individual.

I would be horrified by the teacher's inability to spell and use grammer but given our HT frequently sends out weekly newsletters, to all parents, containing spelling mistakes and grammaticals errors, I doubt I'd get a sympathetic hearing from her.

Teachers at our school, some are worse than others, frequently send out information sheets for parents, with lots of typos, incorrect dates, confusing instructions etc - and then the teacher complains to me that my child struggles to follow her instructions and I nod showing concern (he does struggle in this area), while part of me smiles knowingly, thinking I'm not surprised.

Hand written or word processed? If the latter, sometimes the computer system garbles things - eg last time I did reports, the system took exception to semi-colons, so turned all of my sentences backwards! Thank goodness it was picked up early enough to rectify and didn't go to parents.

They're word processed. It's minor things but given that he is a native English speaker and the other teachers who have provided comments are not and their English is flawless, it really stands out.

It's just a culmination of a few things from this man. I've seen spelling tests he's marked which have been marked incorrectly and he has also 'corrected' my kids written work, changing their good sentences to sentences which no longer make sense. In the past I have just told my kids to ignore his 'corrections' (they know he's wrong) and to continue as they are, but I'm just wondering if I should comment now. He teaches English to other classes throughout the school as well.

he sounds like he is on a mission to screw things up. You have my sympathies. I would mention your surprise at these reports being released with so many errors in them.

My DH (primary school teacher) sent DS1's report back with the return slip filled in pointing out all the mistakes. When I turned up at the end of school the teacher came out and presented me with a shiney new report with all the mistakes corrected I was very . In his defense he had just spent a very long time making sure all his reports were correct.

In that case, FernieB, I would mention it to the head. Not necessarily in a formal way, but if you manage to catch them on the playground/corridor.

Thank you everyone. I think I will try and mention it 'in passing' and see what happens.