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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My students love to point out the missing letter on the board, and I always thank them for catching my errors. I congratulate them on their attention to detail, and I remind them of the important of revising, editing and rewriting. Some can take it too far. I had a parent tell her child, a student of mine, that "earth" should be capitalized, not lowercase as I had written it. Instead of coming to me directly, the student told all of the students sitting around him that I had made a stupid mistake. I pulled the student aside after class and, in a brief private hallway conversation, explained that I was the teacher and he was the student, that I do make mistakes and don't mind being corrected, but that I resented having him instruct my students while I was instructing them, particularly because he gave them bad information. I assigned him a one-page paper on the contexts in which "earth" should be capitalized and the contexts in which "earth" should be lowercase.
I hope he asked Mom for help.
A few weeks later, I wove the Earth-v-earth explanation into a different lesson, hoping the students would understand the distinction without embarrassing my precocious, but likable student.
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I think every parent of a teenager has deal with this.  This mistake is totally different than constant verb gender and number mistakes.[/quote]

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