Teacher can't spell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, many teachers' skills reflect the fact that the profession is underpaid and undervalued.

huh?

You should have those skills PRIOR to entering the work force. Grammar and mechanics are taught in elementary school and reinforced in middle and high. Furthermore, from ES to HS, more complex skills are added each year.


Signed,
a teacher

I think the point is that few well educated people enter the profession. The average teacher graduates in the bottom half of his/her college class.
If salaries go up, people will expect more competitive candidates. There is little money to increase salaries, so we have to take what we get.

And you're supporting your statement with ?????

Post the stats and then we can "chat."

Until then, I'll have to call you a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, many teachers' skills reflect the fact that the profession is underpaid and undervalued.

And too often, under educated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, many teachers' skills reflect the fact that the profession is underpaid and undervalued.

huh?

You should have those skills PRIOR to entering the work force. Grammar and mechanics are taught in elementary school and reinforced in middle and high. Furthermore, from ES to HS, more complex skills are added each year.


Signed,
a teacher

I think the point is that few well educated people enter the profession. The average teacher graduates in the bottom half of his/her college class.
If salaries go up, people will expect more competitive candidates. There is little money to increase salaries, so we have to take what we get.

Oh, just stop it. I have a Masters from an Ivy League and I am in the 'profession'. I have a colleague who is a wonderful teacher, super literate and whose emails look like a ransom note. It is more generational and eye-sight/typing related than anything else I can tell. To send a letter 'telling on this teache"r to the principal would be just plain snarky, and not acknowledge the teacher's other great skills (does not generally misspell when instructing, correcting papers, writing on the board...). Again, is this teacher's spelling just the tip of the iceberg of mediocrity, or is this a great teacher who sends unprofessional emails? Like other posters, my fear is if you tattle you will end up with a teacher who just chooses not to email parents at all--not worth the hassle. Just write back with correct spelling and format, and maybe he/she will get a clue. Or gently drop a with-it email style and grammar book anonymously on their desk. Don't be a tell-tale over this though, unless there are a host of other issues.

I hope you're not a teacher. The post does not say ALL, it says AVERAGE! So that would imply that there are many genius teachers out there, and many not so bright ones too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that few well educated people enter the profession. The average teacher graduates in the bottom half of his/her college class. If salaries go up, people will expect more competitive candidates. There is little money to increase salaries, so we have to take what we get.

I have many relatives and friends who are teachers, none of whom graduated in the bottom half of their classes. In fact, they were superior students. They have a love of learning and teaching.

Please crawl back under your rock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I think the point is that few well educated people enter the profession. The average teacher graduates in the bottom half of his/her college class.
If salaries go up, people will expect more competitive candidates. There is little money to increase salaries, so we have to take what we get.

Oh, just stop it. I have a Masters from an Ivy League and I am in the 'profession'. I have a colleague who is a wonderful teacher, super literate and whose emails look like a ransom note. It is more generational and eye-sight/typing related than anything else I can tell. To send a letter 'telling on this teache"r to the principal would be just plain snarky, and not acknowledge the teacher's other great skills (does not generally misspell when instructing, correcting papers, writing on the board...). Again, is this teacher's spelling just the tip of the iceberg of mediocrity, or is this a great teacher who sends unprofessional emails? Like other posters, my fear is if you tattle you will end up with a teacher who just chooses not to email parents at all--not worth the hassle. Just write back with correct spelling and format, and maybe he/she will get a clue. Or gently drop a with-it email style and grammar book anonymously on their desk. Don't be a tell-tale over this though, unless there are a host of other issues.

Columbia Univ Teacher's college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately, many teachers' skills reflect the fact that the profession is underpaid and undervalued.

huh?

You should have those skills PRIOR to entering the work force. Grammar and mechanics are taught in elementary school and reinforced in middle and high. Furthermore, from ES to HS, more complex skills are added each year.


Signed,
a teacher

I think the point is that few well educated people enter the profession. The average teacher graduates in the bottom half of his/her college class.
If salaries go up, people will expect more competitive candidates. There is little money to increase salaries, so we have to take what we get.

Oh, just stop it. I have a Masters from an Ivy League and I am in the 'profession'. I have a colleague who is a wonderful teacher, super literate and whose emails look like a ransom note. It is more generational and eye-sight/typing related than anything else I can tell. To send a letter 'telling on this teache"r to the principal would be just plain snarky, and not acknowledge the teacher's other great skills (does not generally misspell when instructing, correcting papers, writing on the board...). Again, is this teacher's spelling just the tip of the iceberg of mediocrity, or is this a great teacher who sends unprofessional emails? Like other posters, my fear is if you tattle you will end up with a teacher who just chooses not to email parents at all--not worth the hassle. Just write back with correct spelling and format, and maybe he/she will get a clue. Or gently drop a with-it email style and grammar book anonymously on their desk. Don't be a tell-tale over this though, unless there are a host of other issues.

I hope you're not a teacher. The post does not say ALL, it says AVERAGE! So that would imply that there are many genius teachers out there, and many not so bright ones too.

The Post says "few well educated people enter the profession", a ridiculous statement at best. I hope you are not in a position of any responsibility.

[Anonymous]

I posted earlier complaining that I found a good handful of my former colleagues under educated.

I think one serious problem is that people who take BAs in education miss out on a rich liberal arts experience as undergraduates while they study teaching methods. This shouldn't have spelling implications in particular, but it does make for teachers who can offer little depth in the subjects they teach, who rely heavily on answer keys, and who have neither experienced nor read much about the world. Graduate programs designed as initial teacher training are supposed to address this problem.

A real head-smacking example I've used in the past on this board is a young former colleague who taught her students (in a geography lesson) that the Yukon is in California, and that the Northern Lights are visible from San Francisco. She argued with me when I pulled her aside privately, saying that the dogsleds in the story she was using to introduce the San Francisco Gold Rush were completely appropriate because it gets really cold around Tahoe "and stuff"... and can't she just continue to teach it like this? Coincidentally, she also couldn't spell, but that's normally more of an idiosyncrasy rather than an indication of inferior education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Oh, just stop it. I have a Masters from an Ivy League and I am in the 'profession'. I have a colleague who is a wonderful teacher, super literate and whose emails look like a ransom note. It is more generational and eye-sight/typing related than anything else I can tell. To send a letter 'telling on this teache"r to the principal would be just plain snarky, and not acknowledge the teacher's other great skills (does not generally misspell when instructing, correcting papers, writing on the board...). Again, is this teacher's spelling just the tip of the iceberg of mediocrity, or is this a great teacher who sends unprofessional emails? Like other posters, my fear is if you tattle you will end up with a teacher who just chooses not to email parents at all--not worth the hassle. Just write back with correct spelling and format, and maybe he/she will get a clue. Or gently drop a with-it email style and grammar book anonymously on their desk. Don't be a tell-tale over this though, unless there are a host of other issues.

I hope you're not a teacher. The post does not say ALL, it says AVERAGE! So that would imply that there are many genius teachers out there, and many not so bright ones too.

Your sentence (with the comma splice) can be applied to ALL professions. Are ALL MDs geniuses? Do ALL lawyers graduate at the top of the class? Perhaps your CPA missed one possible deduction b/c s/he graduated at the bottom of his/her class . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the point is that few well educated people enter the profession. The average teacher graduates in the bottom half of his/her college class. If salaries go up, people will expect more competitive candidates. There is little money to increase salaries, so we have to take what we get.

I have many relatives and friends who are teachers, none of whom graduated in the bottom half of their classes. In fact, they were superior students. They have a love of learning and teaching.

Please crawl back under your rock.

Thanks, PP!

Your post is definitely appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We recently got an email from my daughter's principal that bombed the less vs. fewer distinction. I'm appalled, but I don't think there's much I can do about it.

I was bemused by you're post. It seems every day someone makes an error like that. Error like that can effect a person's opinion of the writer. Honestly, I think a majority of people make the mistake of using less when they mean fewer. Further vs. farther is also a common problem.

I'm not sure what is funnier - the people who replied that this post contained errors (thereby demonstrating a truly horrifying lack of a sense of humor), or the fact that the would-be grammarians missed a bunch of intentional errors.

[Anonymous]

How do you know that the people who replied that the post contained errors weren't playing along, displaiying a post-modeurn sense of irony?