Anonymous wrote:I am a HS biology teacher and am terrible with grammar and spelling. I am great with math and science, just don’t ask me how to spell something. We all have our weaknesses!

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Anonymous wrote:We’re not English majors so who cares.

LCPS teacher here

Because you're teaching our children the basics of English, dummy.

Also, you should have used a question mark there.

First graders aren’t learning apostrophes.

-actual English teacher

Ok, but we expect teachers to be educated beyond first grade, right? Or is that asking too much?

I don't want to risk offending any teachers here who are still working on their punctuation in their free time.

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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!

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

As a teacher it would take everything I have not to write back “go G yourself” to this. I would simply not bother responding to your fake passive aggressive BS at all but just know I would hate you.

Oh no! Teachers as a group are a mediocrity, and a sub-par teacher ranks somewhere below a good barista on the professional ladder.

You have to respect the fact that the barista knows showing up to work is part of the job.

Anonymous wrote:I sorta understand what your saying hear OP I get it I rally do please know that I’ve also struggled with my DCs teacher not being able to communicate clear and with a writing style like what your reading LOL

Especially bad was reading hand written labells like “Tresure Box” and having to buy class shorts that said “Kirk’s Kitten’s”

That year, the yearbooks also had captions reading PATROL’S and SPELLING BEE WINNER’S

And this is an oft-lauded “gifted” center.

Is our kid’s learning?

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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.”

An email to you or to the kid?

I can sort of understand being upset about something that goes to a child who is learning, but if this is going to parents then you really need to drop it.

My guess is that she's sending the same email, perhaps even via schedule send, so an error that might have been autocorrect is being repeated.

I'm not that poster, but if the teacher sends it to me, it makes sense to think my child sees similar from her. My child started writing the apostrophes this year when she never had before. We get emails with them all the time.

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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.”

An email to you or to the kid?

I can sort of understand being upset about something that goes to a child who is learning, but if this is going to parents then you really need to drop it.

My guess is that she's sending the same email, perhaps even via schedule send, so an error that might have been autocorrect is being repeated.

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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?

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think a lot of teachers just really don't care anymore. There are no consequences, they've been getting away with doing the bare minimum for the past year and have gotten used to sliding by.

Pray tell, what should the consequence for a teacher grammar error be? Should they be written up for this? Maybe hung?

PP. It’s terribly confusing when the second grade teacher misspells spelling words!

I made a copy of the spelling lists - happened twice-and left in the principal’s mailbox.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think a lot of teachers just really don't care anymore. There are no consequences, they've been getting away with doing the bare minimum for the past year and have gotten used to sliding by.

Pray tell, what should the consequence for a teacher grammar error be? Should they be written up for this? Maybe hung?

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, I think a lot of teachers just really don't care anymore. There are no consequences, they've been getting away with doing the bare minimum for the past year and have gotten used to sliding by.