Would it bother you if a school's website has mistakes in the English?

[lilythesheep]

Decision time for secondary preferences for DD. We've visited the local catchment school - there are good things about it for sure, and less good things too.

But when I've been looking at their website, the number of grammar and punctuation mistakes is really bugging me. I wouldn't mind if it was just the odd typo, but lots of the web pages I've browsed through have problems with punctuation, e.g. commas in completely random places that make no sense. There are also grammatical problems like the noun and verb not agreeing (e.g. 'our results ... has shown'). This is primary school level English, right?

Am I being a massive pedant to feel that if the school can't get its English correct on its public facing website, it's not a great sign about how rigorous they are internally?

Of course lots of school admin staff are perfectly literate. But also a lot of schools pay about 12k a year for the job, so you can't expect perfection....

I sent my child's report back to school once with several spelling errors corrected in a red pen. Under the parents comments section I felt like putting must do better, but I restrained myself to comment several spelling errors were noted within the report. I was a teacher and HoD and I read every report for my department before they were sent home to parents. I'd have been embarrassed for such sloppy work to go home to a parent from my department.