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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I am writing an email to a parent or a student, I absolutely use proper grammar. However, if I'm posting to the Teams chat thread with my middle schoolers, I have found that I've been treating it like a text chain and use informal English to engender a connection with kids. Parents, what do you think of this?[/quote]

Our problem is with teachers who don't know and/or don't value proper grammar and proper English usage in their emails to parents and students. It's particularly grating when you see an ELA teacher make the same grammar mistake in several emails, or use the absolute wrong word for a statement, that would make an adult cringe, the way a high-schooler young college student would switch a simple word for a completely wrong "bigger" word, to sound more sophisticated.

Of course, a great teacher would model writing that is "practically perfect in every way" no matter the medium - emails, texts, chats. But no public school parent would start a thread to complain about the latter. We're OK with shortcuts in texts and chats. Bringing those up are almost a distraction. What we care about is that our children's teachers, especially ELA teachers, be [u]effortlessly[/u] capable of a polished 4 paragraph mass email without grammar mistakes, awkward turns of phrase or unmastered vocabulary. It should absolutely be a requisite.[/quote]

Without calling out the person directly, can you quote what you find to be awkward turns of phrase or unmastered vocabulary? [/quote]

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