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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it wouldn’t bother me. Being a good speller doesn’t make you a good English teacher and there’s nothing about being a bad speller doesn’t mean you can’t be a good English teacher. It’s just a brain difference. I’m an excellent speller and always have been through no virtue of my own. But my grammar is just okay and I was always terrible at critical reading and analysis in high school and college level English. Spelling is a minuscule part of English as an academic subject. [/quote]

This. Above ES spelling isn’t taught in English. In my district, spelling doesn’t appear on any secondary English rubrics because the expectation is that students will use a computer to type their essays. Therefore, a spelling error or the lack of one doesn’t measure whether a kid can spell only the accuracy of their typing and whether they remember to use spell-check. I don’t teach English. One frustration I deal with is when a student has written language goals that focus on spelling although it isn’t evaluated at all in my discipline or any other subject after 5th grade. We don’t teach it so we don’t evaluate it and no, there’s not been any progress toward meeting the goal of 80% free of spelling errors because it is not an appropriate goal anymore. [/quote]

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