1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes

[Anonymous]

Get a life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Please tell me you said that as a joke, just to bicker.

[Anonymous]

So you think unless you’re a native English speaker you can’t be smart OR a good teacher. Nice. I hate it here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an asshole, too. Every week we get an email from the teacher (younger grade) to the effect “remember Library will be on Tuesday’s and gym will be on Friday’s.”

I would send a correction to her on something like this. Gently, of course.

No! Don’t do that. Trust me, I’ve been tempted to correct teachers as well, but nothing good will come of it. You will be hated!

I don't care if I'm "hated," PP, although I think that's a strong overstatement. There are tactful ways to accomplish things like this that will benefit the teacher in the long run.


Hi Sally,

I want you to know how much we appreciate the weekly notes you send home each Friday about the following week's schedule. It really is helpful to Larla when I can sit down with her on Sunday nights and help her plan for the week.

I wanted to point out something that I've noticed in these communications that you may not even be aware of. Your notes often state that library will be on Tuesday's (apostrophe s) or that gym will be on Friday's (apostrophe s.), when these words are correctly written as Tuesdays and Fridays - no apostrophe. This may be one of those things that is unimportant to many parents, while those like me, who spend a lot of our work time in writing and communications, are more aware of rules of grammar like this. I hope you understand that I am only attempting to be helpful in pointing this out.

Many thanks for everything that you do for Larla and the class.

Sincerely,

Me

As a teacher it would take everything I have not to write back “go G yourself” to this. I would simply not bother responding to your fake passive aggressive BS at all but just know I would hate you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Some teachers WERE English majors, and we would appreciate it if ES teachers would teach proper grammar so that we wouldn't have to go back and correct errors the students have learned from you.
--HS teacher

+1. I'm not sure what they learn when getting that Elementary Ed degree, but could use a lot more emphasis on reading and writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Some teachers WERE English majors, and we would appreciate it if ES teachers would teach proper grammar so that we wouldn't have to go back and correct errors the students have learned from you.
--HS teacher

+1. I'm not sure what they learn when getting that Elementary Ed degree, but could use a lot more emphasis on reading and writing.

This teacher is not a native speaker. Small errors are not a big deal. Are you bilingual? No. She’s more advanced than you by default.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Because you're teaching our children the basics of English, dummy.

Also, you should have used a question mark there.

[Anonymous]

Does the teacher at least know how to use the technology for distance learning? Because if she does, she's one up on my child's native-English speaking teacher who can't even get their Google slides right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Because you're teaching our children the basics of English, dummy.

Also, you should have used a question mark there.

First graders aren’t learning apostrophes.

-actual English teacher

[Anonymous]

Sadly, I think a lot of teachers just really don't care anymore. There are no consequences, they've been getting away with doing the bare minimum for the past year and have gotten used to sliding by.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think a lot of teachers just really don't care anymore. There are no consequences, they've been getting away with doing the bare minimum for the past year and have gotten used to sliding by.

A lot more than just the past year...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think a lot of teachers just really don't care anymore. There are no consequences, they've been getting away with doing the bare minimum for the past year and have gotten used to sliding by.

ENGLISH IS HER SECOND LANGUAGE

[Anonymous]

I’ve noticed occasional spelling and grammar errors from teacher. It’s annoying but I’m not going to take time out of my day to correct them. I do think less of them though. What’s really bad though are the office communications. They’re almost indecipherable at times and it’s offensive that people involved in education communicate so poorly. I truly pity them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an asshole, too. Every week we get an email from the teacher (younger grade) to the effect “remember Library will be on Tuesday’s and gym will be on Friday’s.”

I would send a correction to her on something like this. Gently, of course.

No! Don’t do that. Trust me, I’ve been tempted to correct teachers as well, but nothing good will come of it. You will be hated!

I don't care if I'm "hated," PP, although I think that's a strong overstatement. There are tactful ways to accomplish things like this that will benefit the teacher in the long run.


Hi Sally,

I want you to know how much we appreciate the weekly notes you send home each Friday about the following week's schedule. It really is helpful to Larla when I can sit down with her on Sunday nights and help her plan for the week.

I wanted to point out something that I've noticed in these communications that you may not even be aware of. Your notes often state that library will be on Tuesday's (apostrophe s) or that gym will be on Friday's (apostrophe s.), when these words are correctly written as Tuesdays and Fridays - no apostrophe. This may be one of those things that is unimportant to many parents, while those like me, who spend a lot of our work time in writing and communications, are more aware of rules of grammar like this. I hope you understand that I am only attempting to be helpful in pointing this out.

Many thanks for everything that you do for Larla and the class.

Sincerely,

Me

As a teacher it would take everything I have not to write back “go G yourself” to this. I would simply not bother responding to your fake passive aggressive BS at all but just know I would hate you.

Oh no! Teachers as a group are a mediocrity, and a sub-par teacher ranks somewhere below a good barista on the professional ladder.

You have to respect the fact that the barista knows showing up to work is part of the job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Because you're teaching our children the basics of English, dummy.

Also, you should have used a question mark there.

First graders aren’t learning apostrophes.

-actual English teacher

Ok, but we expect teachers to be educated beyond first grade, right? Or is that asking too much?

I don't want to risk offending any teachers here who are still working on their punctuation in their free time.