I am so tired of school communications riddled with poor grammar and misspellings.

[Anonymous]

!!

[Anonymous]

Maybe you should volunteer to be the copy editor of all school communications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should volunteer to be the copy editor of all school communications.

This.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, anything that isn’t edited by someone other than the writer will have some typos and other errors. We know what we meant to write and our brains fill it in. I always have someone else read my professional writing even if only for typos rather than substantive comments. My husband's documents go through like 5 levels of review before they go out.

[Anonymous]

This used to annoy me. But then I looked at communications at work including that come from people at very high levels of publicly traded companies and see how crappy they also are.Now I don’t care.

[Anonymous]

Have you ever written to the AskMCPS email for information? The amount of misspellings in their response was truly horrific.

[Anonymous]

DP here. I've been dismayed by grammar and spelling mistakes coming directly in emails from teachers.

But I kind of fondly remember the sloganeering back-to-school powerpoint with a hilariously glaring error on one slide promising the school's commitment to excellence on every level.

[Anonymous]

It gripes me, too.

You know there is an overall deterioration of standards in the world when Cathay Pacific can’t even spell its name correctly on one of its planes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, anything that isn’t edited by someone other than the writer will have some typos and other errors. We know what we meant to write and our brains fill it in. I always have someone else read my professional writing even if only for typos rather than substantive comments. My husband's documents go through like 5 levels of review before they go out.

Mine go through 5-9 layers of substantive review at work.

[Anonymous]

I hear you, OP. Not sure where you are in the K-12 continuum, but you are going to have to find your zen place. It is depressing to witness the poor standards of the educators in charge of your child's education, but there will be so many more reasons for anger and frustration as your child progresses through the system. One day you will yearn for these innocent times.

[Anonymous]

I agree Op

[Anonymous]

We all want a swift, if not immediate reply from someone who is also trying to see to the needs of a lot of children. I’m not worried about cosmetic issues as long as the information is accurate, useful, and clear. If the grammatical issues interfere with understanding the info, it is worth speaking up. Otherwise, I’d find something else to nit pick.

[Anonymous]

The reading specialist at our Mcps elementary had a glaring typo in her subpar PP at btsn.

Even better: they misspelled principal in the pp at btsn at our middle school (Rosa Parks).

Public school is so awful.

I thought editing was a big part of the mcps tech heavy prep for future secretaries and cubicle drones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you should volunteer to be the copy editor of all school communications.

This.

Not the OP

Really? I’d volunteer to do this for the PTA, but why would I volunteer to do this for the Principal’s newsletters?

Part of his job is to communicate with parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear you, OP. Not sure where you are in the K-12 continuum, but you are going to have to find your zen place. It is depressing to witness the poor standards of the educators in charge of your child's education, but there will be so many more reasons for anger and frustration as your child progresses through the system. One day you will yearn for these innocent times.

This!

I agree with you OP.

I let it go and try to show it to the kids and have them find the errors! My one older kid likes this. I try to keep my frustration hidden and just comment that everyone makes mistakes and it’s good to proofread when you can.