Spelling mistakes

[Pam29]

My son brought his end of year report home yesterday and it is full of spelling mistakes by various teachers! What hope for the kids??!

[yogasun]

I agree with you.
I recently visited a Falconry Centre and there was a board displaying little notes of thanks from visiting schoolchildren.
In the middle was a notecard from their teacher which said (I quote);-
'Thank you for the day, the children found it a wonderful
experiance'
Pretty dismal if their teacher can't even spell 'experience'.

[jno]

that's nothing, jno jnr once got docked a mark in an essay -reading English at university, for heaven's sake - for writing responsible instead of responsable. Pam, just do your utmost to teach your son yourself, which is what I had to do.

[Lil O'lady]

I never mis-spelled anyhting until I became a teacher, then constantly reading mis-spelled words in childrens work did my brain in.

[terambulan]

Go on....show the teachers 'your bottle' and correct the spelling mistakes and return to Headteacher

[brenda]

Having been a teacher, now retired, I find this disgraceful.
I would make an appointment with the Headteacher and show him/her your highlighted errors.

No need for heavy stuff, but if he/she is also signing the reports, it needs to be brought to his/her attention .
Best of luck.

[spudqueen]

I do wonder about teachers sometimes. I work in a village shop which also has a post office in it, but the post office is separate, in the corner, behind a screen with all the notices and stuff about post office services. Anyway, this morning one of the classes from the local primary school all troop in, the kids line up and the teacher hands out envelopes to them to be weighed and then stamped, then starts sending the kids to my counter where there are newspapers, sandwiches etc for sale. When I mentioned that she might want the post office - in the corner- she seemed really surprised. Could she not tell that I was not the post office, and why didn't she do a 'recce' before bringing all the kids?
Honestly, the mind boggles!

[mrs_overall]

Last week at Junior Overall's school summer fair, I picked up a few items to buy from a stall, totted up the amount and handed the correct money to the teacher manning the stall.
She looked at me in amazement and asked me how I knew how much to pay.
What's worrying is that she will be teaching my son maths next year.