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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not a big deal.  Don't make it one.  Tell you daughter to talk to the teacher and take a dictionary with her.  I would suggest a "puzzled" approach.[/quote]

All due respect, I am raising a young woman. I am teaching her to assert herself. Politely and with civility, yes. But never to act confused or deferential when she knows she is right. Pretending to be puzzled is an offensive suggestion.[/quote]

I'm puzzled as to how the teacher could think "affect" is correct.[/quote]

I'm puzzled why people think a student should act dumb just to spare a teacher their feelings. Do you think the teacher was thinking about the student's feelings when they crossed out the correct word to scribble the wrong word on the student's paper?[/quote]

It's a technique of communication. It's called "the columbo technique".

You say, I was looking up affect and effect in the dictionary. Affect means...., effect means....

So I'm confused why you asked me to change my title from effect to affect.

It leaves the teacher an opportunity to say " oh I was wrong, I always get those 2 confused, my bad" without being put on the defensive.

One thing assertive women (and men) need to learn more than grammar and spelling is diplomacy, compassion and communication. It will take you much further than self righteous, smug and rude.

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