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[quote=Anonymous]I understand what PP is saying, but let's assume the teacher is not like that.  Like anything else in life, there are several ways to approach this--hopefully without offending or embarrassing anyone.

1. Please don't bring the English teacher into this.  
2. Suggestion: [b]Can DD change the title to something like this:  How xxx Affects yyy?  Just a thought--kind of a roundabout way of not offending anyone.
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3. If changing the title around is not an alternative, then DD should go to the teacher and tell her that she had been confused about the title herself and had looked up the word --and the "effect" is the noun.

4. Do not go to the principal over this.  Pick your battles.  What is he/she going to do? Fire the teacher?  Go to the teacher and tell her that she cannot spell and she needs to learn?  (if she cannot spell by now, that is not likely to change)  If, after DD goes to the teacher and gets pushback, then going to the principal is correct--but, that would be over the pushback-not the initial error.

It is possible that the teacher was tired and just not thinking.  It is also possible that she had help from an aide in checking the papers (kind of unlikely, though).  She might not even recall changing the title.  [/quote]

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