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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an asshole, too. Every week we get an email from the teacher (younger grade) to the effect “remember Library will be on Tuesday’s and gym will be on Friday’s.”[/quote]

I would send a correction to her on something like this. Gently, of course.[/quote]

No! Don’t do that.  Trust me, I’ve been tempted to correct teachers as well, but nothing good will come of it. You will be hated![/quote]

I don't care if I'm "hated," PP, although I think that's a strong overstatement. There are tactful ways to accomplish things like this that will benefit the teacher in the long run.

Hi Sally,

I want you to know how much we appreciate the weekly notes you send home each Friday about the following week's schedule. It really is helpful to Larla when I can sit down with her on Sunday nights and help her plan for the week.

I wanted to point out something that I've noticed in these communications that you may not even be aware of. Your notes often state that library will be on Tuesday's (apostrophe s) or that gym will be on Friday's (apostrophe s.), when these words are correctly written as Tuesdays and Fridays - no apostrophe. This may be one of those things that is unimportant to many parents, while those like me, who spend a lot of our work time in writing and communications, are more aware of rules of grammar like this. I hope you understand that I am only attempting to be helpful in pointing this out.

Many thanks for everything that you do for Larla and the class.

Sincerely,

Me[/quote]

Jesus Christ.  Who cares.  No really, who cares.  In any event, there are grammatical errors in your draft email, there are poor stylistic choices, and you go through that entire effort to correct whether or not the plural day takes an apostrophe and ignore the dropping of the definite article.

I guarantee you that the average email you draft at work has several typos in it.  No one sends you an email like this, and if they did, you would have a less than positive reaction.[/quote]

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