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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Libary Event
Its going to be a great school year!
Larla should of brought her project to school on Tuesday
Please bare with the construction on 7th and Stuart
Wednesday’s in June: free summer science class

^made-up-by-me grammar issues, but akin to the ones I have seen in newsletters and emails

SHOULD OF! My all time favorite.

Libary? A black person definitely wrote that. And I'm black.

I loathe poor grammar in school communications. I also don't like when school administrators speak to parents as if they're stupid/lack verbal understanding. Our private did not have this problem. *Sigh*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Libary? A black person definitely wrote that. And I'm black.

I loathe poor grammar in school communications. I also don't like when school administrators speak to parents as if they're stupid/lack verbal understanding. Our private did not have this problem. *Sigh*

"Libary" was a thing in the very white, Midwestern place where I grew up. Pronounced that way, spelled that way. Like Febuary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Libary? A black person definitely wrote that. And I'm black.

I loathe poor grammar in school communications. I also don't like when school administrators speak to parents as if they're stupid/lack verbal understanding. Our private did not have this problem. *Sigh*

"Libary" was a thing in the very white, Midwestern place where I grew up. Pronounced that way, spelled that way. Like Febuary.

PP here. Interesting fact! I always associated it with being AA. Same with adding an S to store names (Giants, Nordstroms, Costcos).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Central office has ignored us so far when multiple people have pointed out the errors. There are SO many errors in the crappy Curriculum 2.0 resources that I can't even bear to use them and create my own instead. Maybe if parents contact central office about the errors they see in central office created resources they'd actually pay attention. They *do* need something to do to justify their jobs in central office, after all.

This X10000. There is zero quality control in the central office. Eric Lang ran a horrible operation but was confident that he would never get fired for it. Many teachers do try to correct the materials by crossing things out/making corrections before copying it. Many teachers also hold back materials that are so bad they are beyond correction.

The math worksheets are the worst!

Larla has 10 apples. Jake has five oranges. Jim is making a pie in Idaho fifty miles away. Karen is driving a bus south at 50 miles an hour. How many blueberries does Frank have in his basket? Explain you're thinking and how you used the number line to solve this problem.

Someone in the central office would probably respond that the teacher hadn't educated herself enough in 2.0 to think deeper and that obviously the student was expected to infer that Karen had the blueberries and lived in Canada which is north of Idaho hence why she driving south to get to Jim the pie maker. The child is expected to use their estimation skills to infer how many blueberries would be in two 8 inch pies. The child is expected to infer that Jim wants to make two pies because Larla and Jake are bringing apples and oranges.

Hilarious! Also depressing. As the parent of a 2.0 Guinea pig, I saw a lot of this. One of my favorites was a map that was obviously mislabeled...and it was a prep material for a test.

LOL! That is such an accurate description of how things work!

Agree completely. My kid is in 5th, and we have been amazed at the shi&&y worksheets that get sent home on a regular basis.

[Anonymous]

I'm so tempted to take a red pen to everything that comes home and send it back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Central office has ignored us so far when multiple people have pointed out the errors. There are SO many errors in the crappy Curriculum 2.0 resources that I can't even bear to use them and create my own instead. Maybe if parents contact central office about the errors they see in central office created resources they'd actually pay attention. They *do* need something to do to justify their jobs in central office, after all.

This X10000. There is zero quality control in the central office. Eric Lang ran a horrible operation but was confident that he would never get fired for it. Many teachers do try to correct the materials by crossing things out/making corrections before copying it. Many teachers also hold back materials that are so bad they are beyond correction.

The math worksheets are the worst!

Larla has 10 apples. Jake has five oranges. Jim is making a pie in Idaho fifty miles away. Karen is driving a bus south at 50 miles an hour. How many blueberries does Frank have in his basket? Explain you're thinking and how you used the number line to solve this problem.

Someone in the central office would probably respond that the teacher hadn't educated herself enough in 2.0 to think deeper and that obviously the student was expected to infer that Karen had the blueberries and lived in Canada which is north of Idaho hence why she driving south to get to Jim the pie maker. The child is expected to use their estimation skills to infer how many blueberries would be in two 8 inch pies. The child is expected to infer that Jim wants to make two pies because Larla and Jake are bringing apples and oranges.

This is exactly, exactly what happened. And, now Lang is off working somewhere else, making crap tons of money as a reward for his poop performance at MCPS.

[Anonymous]

I meant poor, but poop is also accurate. Or, poopy, to try and be more grammatically correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so tempted to take a red pen to everything that comes home and send it back.

Tough though, because I don't always blame the teachers. They're given some of this material. If you want to send it back, copy it to Central Office. Maybe that would help?

Teachers, feel free to let parents know the best approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Central office has ignored us so far when multiple people have pointed out the errors. There are SO many errors in the crappy Curriculum 2.0 resources that I can't even bear to use them and create my own instead. Maybe if parents contact central office about the errors they see in central office created resources they'd actually pay attention. They *do* need something to do to justify their jobs in central office, after all.

This X10000. There is zero quality control in the central office. Eric Lang ran a horrible operation but was confident that he would never get fired for it. Many teachers do try to correct the materials by crossing things out/making corrections before copying it. Many teachers also hold back materials that are so bad they are beyond correction.

The math worksheets are the worst!

Larla has 10 apples. Jake has five oranges. Jim is making a pie in Idaho fifty miles away. Karen is driving a bus south at 50 miles an hour. How many blueberries does Frank have in his basket? Explain you're thinking and how you used the number line to solve this problem.

Someone in the central office would probably respond that the teacher hadn't educated herself enough in 2.0 to think deeper and that obviously the student was expected to infer that Karen had the blueberries and lived in Canada which is north of Idaho hence why she driving south to get to Jim the pie maker. The child is expected to use their estimation skills to infer how many blueberries would be in two 8 inch pies. The child is expected to infer that Jim wants to make two pies because Larla and Jake are bringing apples and oranges.

I bolded the entire sentence. Maybe they meant "Explain you are thinking and how you used the number line...."

Ex: Larla and Jim have total 15 pieces of fruit, but none are blueberries. Frank & his blueberries are already on the bus with Karen but they don't know how to find Jim since they can't read a map. Additionally, Jim doesn't know how to turn on the oven to bake the pie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Libary? A black person definitely wrote that. And I'm black.

I loathe poor grammar in school communications. I also don't like when school administrators speak to parents as if they're stupid/lack verbal understanding. Our private did not have this problem. *Sigh*

"Libary" was a thing in the very white, Midwestern place where I grew up. Pronounced that way, spelled that way. Like Febuary.

PP here. Interesting fact! I always associated it with being AA. Same with adding an S to store names (Giants, Nordstroms, Costcos).

My white husband does this. Aldi's...

[Anonymous]

My kid's elementary school teacher has a number of misspellings/grammatical issues in her online bio, which I can forgive. But her bio also spells her last name two different ways! No one ever gave her the memo that it's ok to be wrong, but that you should be consistenty wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Libary? A black person definitely wrote that. And I'm black.

I loathe poor grammar in school communications. I also don't like when school administrators speak to parents as if they're stupid/lack verbal understanding. Our private did not have this problem. *Sigh*

"Libary" was a thing in the very white, Midwestern place where I grew up. Pronounced that way, spelled that way. Like Febuary.

I've also recently noticed many people pronouncing 'frustrated' as 'fustrated'.


Fusstrating!

[Anonymous]

It is sad to see such a decline in basic writing skills. MCPS curriculum is failing in so many areas..so many parents supplement with tutors to close the gaps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is sad to see such a decline in basic writing skills. MCPS curriculum is failing in so many areas..so many parents supplement with tutors to close the gaps.

How many?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I meant poor, but poop is also accurate. Or, poopy, to try and be more grammatically correct.

my 3 yo would have a chuckle