1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guess what everyone? Your children will be ok. My tween had MANY early teachers who spoke less than perfect English: non native speakers, black vernacular English, and other variations among them. My kid didn’t lose the ability to conjugate a verb. He didn’t pick up bad habits. He, like other kids, is perceptive enough to pick up on these things and came out just fine. These women who said “yous” and “what you gonna do?” and other things taught him how to read, how to be kind, and that people who don’t enunciate every t have every bit of value as the next person.

This whole damn thread is a micro aggression.

This thread is completely despicable. But if I were to tell people what it’s like to live here, it’s probably the best example I could think of to show. People who have the nerve to talk down on someone who can teach in her non native language and getting uppity about apostrophes. People in this area are so damn pleased with themselves for being absolutely horrible and mean people.

[Anonymous]

I thought that unlike accents, black vernacular English was something black people didn’t use in professional settings? Sorry but I don’t know much about it at all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought that unlike accents, black vernacular English was something black people didn’t use in professional settings? Sorry but I don’t know much about it at all!

Op didn’t say this teacher is Black and BVE isn’t a second language, it’s a dialect of English that is perfectly acceptable in professional situations. It has distinct rules and syntactical patterns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought that unlike accents, black vernacular English was something black people didn’t use in professional settings? Sorry but I don’t know much about it at all!

Op didn’t say this teacher is Black and BVE isn’t a second language, it’s a dialect of English that is perfectly acceptable in professional situations. It has distinct rules and syntactical patterns.

Another poster mentioned BVE. In my experience, PP is right— people switch to standard English in professional or formal settings. Similar to my relatives & friends (white) who say “he don’t” informally but say “he doesn’t” in a more formal setting.

The apostrophe thing would drive me nuts, but I would never correct the teacher. I’d just teach my child appropriate apostrophe use.

[Anonymous]

Kirk’s Kitten’s class t-shirt PP.

Apostrophe error.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kirk’s Kitten’s class t-shirt PP.

Apostrophe error.

And you made a spelling error in your post (autocorrect?), proving how easily these things happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Simple things like "Now what YOU are going to do now, Sally?" (What are you going to do now?) Not complicated things.

I'm sure kiddo will be fine but THIS on top of the substandard learning in virtual is just driving me crazy. Plus this lady is not fun at all compared to the other teachers, no sense of humor, etc etc. It just makes me sad.

I think this is your real issue with the teacher. I think if she was more "fun" you probably would notice the errors less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.”

An email to you or to the kid?

I can sort of understand being upset about something that goes to a child who is learning, but if this is going to parents then you really need to drop it.

My guess is that she's sending the same email, perhaps even via schedule send, so an error that might have been autocorrect is being repeated.

I've never understood this argument. Autocorrect doesn't change correctly spelled non-proper-name words into incorrect ones. If you type the plural Tuesdays, it doesn't autocorrect to Tuesday's.

[Anonymous]

Do it really madder? Who’s business is this? I could care less if teacher’s make grammer errs. Y’all are caddy and clickish and total snobs that prolly couldn’t teach a room full of kindergardeners.

Why should teacher’s be criticized unfairly? Are y’all attornies with prefect writing and talking? It’s’ pubic school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.”

An email to you or to the kid?

I can sort of understand being upset about something that goes to a child who is learning, but if this is going to parents then you really need to drop it.

My guess is that she's sending the same email, perhaps even via schedule send, so an error that might have been autocorrect is being repeated.

I've never understood this argument. Autocorrect doesn't change correctly spelled non-proper-name words into incorrect ones. If you type the plural Tuesdays, it doesn't autocorrect to Tuesday's.

My iphone does this all the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Simple things like "Now what YOU are going to do now, Sally?" (What are you going to do now?) Not complicated things.

I'm sure kiddo will be fine but THIS on top of the substandard learning in virtual is just driving me crazy. Plus this lady is not fun at all compared to the other teachers, no sense of humor, etc etc. It just makes me sad.

I think this is your real issue with the teacher. I think if she was more "fun" you probably would notice the errors less.

How would you even know she’s more or less fun than the other first grade teachers !? I have NO CLUE what happens in the other teachers’ classes because I’m not in them . All I can go by is my kids’ class. No wonder you’re all so miserable , you do this to yourselves! Who the heck is following what other first grade teachers do to see how their teacher measures up. And how would you even do so if you wanted to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Jesus Christ. Who cares. No really, who cares. In any event, there are grammatical errors in your draft email, there are poor stylistic choices, and you go through that entire effort to correct whether or not the plural day takes an apostrophe and ignore the dropping of the definite article.

I guarantee you that the average email you draft at work has several typos in it. No one sends you an email like this, and if they did, you would have a less than positive reaction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do it really madder? Who’s business is this? I could care less if teacher’s make grammer errs. Y’all are caddy and clickish and total snobs that prolly couldn’t teach a room full of kindergardeners.

Why should teacher’s be criticized unfairly? Are y’all attornies with prefect writing and talking? It’s’ pubic school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kid's teacher frequently makes grammar mistakes. She is not a native English speaker. NOTHING against ESL (my husband is ESL, my kid is bilingual) but I don't understand how one should be teaching such young students if this is the case.

Don't call me an A-hole. I just cannot stand hearing frequent mistakes over virtual and do not want my kid picking them up.

You are an a-hole. It is first grade, lighten up. Who gives a shit?

Also, cough up $20k for private and then you won’t get mistakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guess what everyone? Your children will be ok. My tween had MANY early teachers who spoke less than perfect English: non native speakers, black vernacular English, and other variations among them. My kid didn’t lose the ability to conjugate a verb. He didn’t pick up bad habits. He, like other kids, is perceptive enough to pick up on these things and came out just fine. These women who said “yous” and “what you gonna do?” and other things taught him how to read, how to be kind, and that people who don’t enunciate every t have every bit of value as the next person.

This whole damn thread is a micro aggression.

This thread is completely despicable. But if I were to tell people what it’s like to live here, it’s probably the best example I could think of to show. People who have the nerve to talk down on someone who can teach in her non native language and getting uppity about apostrophes. People in this area are so damn pleased with themselves for being absolutely horrible and mean people.

This one million fu king times!!!!!!!!!!!!!