Jessica sent in this instruction sheet sent home by her daughter's first grade reading teacher:
It's interesting that the your/you're confusion occurs with both references to "A.R.".
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Time to worry about you're child's education
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I'm sure when the offending teacher realized his/her mistake, he/she was horrified. Educators are extremely busy people and like most humans, make mistakes from time to time. From the content of this reminder, it's obvious that the teacher is doing his/her part to encourage reading. Cut him/her a little slack!
It's true what Anon said, but I would be very worried if my kid was in that class.
Also this note is in Comic Sans. That's a criminal offense right there!
My 2nd grade teacher used to put mistakes like this in our homework pages, and whoever circled them and could explain the problem to her (incorrectly spelled word, wrong punctuation, use of a homophone like you're / your) would get candy.
Agreed on the Comic Sans thing, though. Ugh.
Anon is probably wrong. They are not extremely busy people. And if they can't even proofread their own material, they should find another teacher to do it.
I had four kids in the school system, and there were but a handful of teachers that I thought knew as much grammar and spelling as my own kids. And this kind of stuff came home every single semester.
I can assure you it happens and it's not due to being busy. No self-respecting English/reading/lit teacher would ever make such a mistake. I speak from experience, in that my son used to bring home misspelled paperwork from his school all. the. TIME. Didn't matter if it was from the principal, the math teacher, or his English teacher. I would correct the errors in red pen and mail them back to the school (to avoid my son being singled out and retaliated against...sadly learned that one the hard way).
I personally LOVE the Comic Sans font. It is so cute!
When my son was in sixth grade, his English teacher wouldn't use the standard spelling lists, but instead created his own lists of spelling words each week. In the first week, my son came home with a list of 20 words, four of which were misspelled. The next week, the spelling list contained three misspellings. Don't tell me the teacher was busy. The teacher couldn't spell and neither could his students.
There is absolutely no excuse.
(Why does everyone dis Comic Sans? I love Comic Sans. So there!)
Yep, that's a problem.
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