Anonymous
Post 12/19/2024 02:37     Subject: Re:English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No it wouldn’t bother me. Being a good speller doesn’t make you a good English teacher and there’s nothing about being a bad speller doesn’t mean you can’t be a good English teacher. It’s just a brain difference. I’m an excellent speller and always have been through no virtue of my own. But my grammar is just okay and I was always terrible at critical reading and analysis in high school and college level English. Spelling is a minuscule part of English as an academic subject.


Proving my own point. Being a good speller doesn’t mean you can write a coherent sentence lol.


People don’t always edit posts, don’t be an ass.
Anonymous
Post 12/18/2024 21:15     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Is she at Pyle MS? Parents have complained.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 18:06     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is why most public country teachers send their own children to catholic schools at least for k-6 or 8.

Time tested and effective curricula and skills taught.


Actually, most public school teachers enroll their children in the schools in which they themselves teach. I don't know a single one that has gone private at all.


I sent my kid to Catholic schools after he spent some very underwhelming years in a different (and much better) elementary school than mine. Worth every penny I worked 2-3 jobs to pay for.
Anonymous
Post 12/14/2024 17:59     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
I don't think the misspelling is the problem, but how do you know about it? Are things coming home with misspellings? That's a lack of professionalism, because one doesn't have to know how to spell anymore - computers tell you. You'd have to ignore the big squiggly line under something in order to misspell. Also why no one can spell anymore - we no longer need to. I used to have impeccable spelling, and have a PhD in literature from a top school, but at this point I definitely would misspell a lot of things if I didn't have a computer program constantly correcting me.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 16:50     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Wouldn't bother me one bit. My kid would notice it and know better.
You are concentrating on spelling. Is there anything good you can say about the teacher?
Reminds me of my foreign language teacher. The man is super knowledgeable, speaks 8 languages, but writes and types differently.
I can't write or spell to save my life, but retired early thanks to knowing math.
Anonymous
Post 12/04/2024 15:59     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is why most public country teachers send their own children to catholic schools at least for k-6 or 8.

Time tested and effective curricula and skills taught.


Actually, most public school teachers enroll their children in the schools in which they themselves teach. I don't know a single one that has gone private at all.


About half the teachers at my public school send their children to privates.

- teacher
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 10:41     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is not elementary school. Would this bother you? Don't teachers need to have basic knowledge of the subjects they teach?
this is my English teacher rn bruh


Why are high school students trolling zombies threads on a parents forum?
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 10:36     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A lot of current teachers came of age during the whole language movement. For example, I remember having a spelling list about everything in a firehouse. Now those 80s and 90s kids are teaching. I’d be more bothered by grammar mistakes.


Tests are unfair or racist to those who don’t study.


I’m not sure you’re understanding. Phonics-based spelling tests might cover three letter words with a short e. When I took spelling tests during the 90s, they were thematic. So maybe I was given a test on animals, but no specific phonics skill. Brute memorization is a terrible way to learn spelling, even if I did do well on the tests.


English has a lot of loan words that aren't spelled phonetically as well as words that sound the same but are spelled differently to impart different meanings.

insure, ensure, assure
weight, wait
know, no

The only way to know those meanings is to know those spellings. No?
Anonymous
Post 12/03/2024 09:50     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:This is not elementary school. Would this bother you? Don't teachers need to have basic knowledge of the subjects they teach?
this is my English teacher rn bruh
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2022 16:49     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:How did the English teacher even pass college classes or for that matter high school classes if the teacher cannot spell?


Welcome to today’s America, I guess.

Anonymous
Post 11/30/2022 15:52     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
How did the English teacher even pass college classes or for that matter high school classes if the teacher cannot spell?
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2022 15:51     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Yes. An English teacher who cannot spell should never have been certified to become a teacher.

Anonymous
Post 11/30/2022 15:32     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is why most public country teachers send their own children to catholic schools at least for k-6 or 8.

Time tested and effective curricula and skills taught.


Actually, most public school teachers enroll their children in the schools in which they themselves teach. I don't know a single one that has gone private at all.


I send my son to a private school. The expectations in public school are very, very low.
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2022 11:20     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I read a study years ago that most teachers weren't very smart outside of their subjects. They skewed toward being very smart in their subject but when looked at individually as an academic whole, teachers tended to have lower scores, GPAs, and overall grades than most other majors. The same was true for elementary teachers who taught many subjects. When second grade teachers were given basic tests that everyone who completed elementary school should score well on, they scored highest on the materials that were covered specifically during the second grade.

I found it really fascinating because growing up, I always thought my teachers were the smartest people.

I will say that I've found that society, as a whole, has become terrible at spelling. Definitely a byproduct of so much time spent on our devices and of text-speak becoming more socially acceptable in our day-to-day lives, especially at work.


Trust me, not all teachers are “very smart” in their subject area either. But then, most people are of average intelligence, so they won’t notice. - Teacher


Too true. - Another Teacher
Anonymous
Post 11/30/2022 11:17     Subject: English teacher who regularly misspells words
Anonymous wrote:This is why most public country teachers send their own children to catholic schools at least for k-6 or 8.

Time tested and effective curricula and skills taught.


Actually, most public school teachers enroll their children in the schools in which they themselves teach. I don't know a single one that has gone private at all.