Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:18     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here



LCPS teacher who is an immigrant and deplores you and the rest of the mediocre rotten apples tainting our profession. Shame on you.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:18     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I saw this in my child's American-born and raised (and FCPS-educated) first grade teacher. I take it as a sign of how poor the American educational system is right now - if our 20-something year old teachers can't speak and write properly, how on earth are they supposed to teach our children????

At least they made it through college.
I am on an unemployment help board and it hurts my eyes to see how people write. I keep
Telling myself they probably worked menial jobs but why knows?
A lot of uneducated people


Do you consider yourself a competent writer?
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:13     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
My 3rd grader's teacher had spelling and grammar issues on a math quiz last week.. my child couldn't understand the question. I've given up at this point.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:13     Subject: Re:1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.”


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


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!
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:11     Subject: Re:1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote: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.”


I would send a correction to her on something like this. Gently, of course.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:09     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:Our kid's teacher frequently makes grammar mistakes. She is not a native English speaker. NOTHING against ESL (my husband is ESL, my kid is bilingual) but I don't understand how one should be teaching such young students if this is the case.

Don't call me an A-hole. I just cannot stand hearing frequent mistakes over virtual and do not want my kid picking them up.


Buy your kid some headphones and learn how language acquisition work.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:08     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 12:03     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:Our kid's teacher frequently makes grammar mistakes. She is not a native English speaker. NOTHING against ESL (my husband is ESL, my kid is bilingual) but I don't understand how one should be teaching such young students if this is the case.

Don't call me an A-hole. I just cannot stand hearing frequent mistakes over virtual and do not want my kid picking them up.


Let it go. This teacher is one of MANY your kid will have. Your kid will not be sullied by this teacher's errors. At any rate, the school year is almost done.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:47     Subject: Re:1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
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.”
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:45     Subject: Re:1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
OP here. Simple things like "Now what YOU are going to do now, Sally?" (What are you going to do now?) Not complicated things.

I'm sure kiddo will be fine but THIS on top of the substandard learning in virtual is just driving me crazy. Plus this lady is not fun at all compared to the other teachers, no sense of humor, etc etc. It just makes me sad.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:43     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:Our kid's teacher frequently makes grammar mistakes. She is not a native English speaker. NOTHING against ESL (my husband is ESL, my kid is bilingual) but I don't understand how one should be teaching such young students if this is the case.

Don't call me an A-hole. I just cannot stand hearing frequent mistakes over virtual and do not want my kid picking them up.

I sympathize, op. Next year the teachrr will change and your kid will be fine.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:41     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Anonymous wrote:I saw this in my child's American-born and raised (and FCPS-educated) first grade teacher. I take it as a sign of how poor the American educational system is right now - if our 20-something year old teachers can't speak and write properly, how on earth are they supposed to teach our children????

At least they made it through college.
I am on an unemployment help board and it hurts my eyes to see how people write. I keep
Telling myself they probably worked menial jobs but why knows?
A lot of uneducated people
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:39     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Unfortunately I see tons of spelling, grammar, and math mistakes from native speaker teachers too.
I think your kids will be fine. They will soon start to notice and correct her though. She better not teach older grades, too. They won’t correct but will snicker.
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:37     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
I saw this in my child's American-born and raised (and FCPS-educated) first grade teacher. I take it as a sign of how poor the American educational system is right now - if our 20-something year old teachers can't speak and write properly, how on earth are they supposed to teach our children????
Anonymous
Post 02/20/2021 11:34     Subject: 1st grade teacher who makes frequent grammatical mistakes
Our kid's teacher frequently makes grammar mistakes. She is not a native English speaker. NOTHING against ESL (my husband is ESL, my kid is bilingual) but I don't understand how one should be teaching such young students if this is the case.

Don't call me an A-hole. I just cannot stand hearing frequent mistakes over virtual and do not want my kid picking them up.