If your child's Language Arts teacher sent home a note...

[Bella the Ball 360]

OP personally ,I think she should be executed. Teachers are a dime a dozen because it is such a respected profession. Gosh, who wouldn't want their every move scrutinized? Just look at all the postings about teachers on this board.

 

[Briarmom]

Bomb, I just thought of you! DD's 4th grade teacher sent out a short email this morning--nothing important, basically just testing to see if her email list is correct. I skimmed it and forgot about.

We just got another email from her apologizing profusely for the spelling error in her earlier email! Not sure if anyone pointed it out to her or if she found it herself. I skimmed it so fast I didn't notice it the first time.

I have a feeling we won't be seeing many mistakes from her!

OP personally ,I think she should be executed. Teachers are a dime a dozen because it is such a respected profession. Gosh, who wouldn't want their every move scrutinized? Just look at all the postings about teachers on this board.

You need one.

I must say, in the defense of this teacher, that she is the only one of ds' teachers that has sent home their email address/planning hour info. My appreciation for that far outweighs my concern over this note. I have no idea how to contact his 'homeroom' teacher. None.

Thanks for all the opinions.

 

[sbell111]

I saw post #60. As I said, it's no big deal if you make mistakes on the DIS (I notice them, but that's just because I've had correct grammar, etc. drilled into my head from too many years in Catholic school.) However, there is no excuse for a teacher to be unprofessional when sending notes home to parents. I don't care how rushed she may be. I can be rushed when I'm doing a job for either the newspaper I work for or for one of my other clients; however, I make sure that there are no spelling or grammatical errors before I send them the completed job. That said, I wouldn't say anything to the teacher or a school administrator about it. I would just think that it was a shame that the teacher was either unprofessional or not very educated herself and would do my best to teach my child to write properly.

Comparisons to client projects (whatever that is) or newspaper assignments are not on the mark. You see, in your examples, the project is the work product. If you fail to submit that project, you would not have done your job. In the OP's situation, on the other hand, the note is not 'the job'. Teaching is. The note is a non-required bit that was sent solely to aid the parent.

 

[joyjoy]

Let's talk about me.

My kid's 4th grade teacher pronounced the city of Des Moines, IA as... Desss Moinesss. She also said Illinoise. Instead of Houston, she said Youston. And, she misspelled my kid's last name EVERY TIME she wrote it. Used to drive me nuts.

Okay, carry on with your arguing.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

I had a Social Studies teacher announce to the class that the Grand Canyon was IN Colorado (yes, the Colorado River runs through it but it's definitely not in Colorado.) I had been there the summer before and I had no problem correcting her in front of the class and she had no problem with the fact that I corrected her either. She was a good teacher in general, but that was a pretty bad mistake for a Social Studies teacher to make.

 

[Pigeon]

We had one particularly awful teacher who sent home lists of spelling words with words misspelled on more than one occasion. I'd send in a note asking if she wanted the kids to learn the words the way they were on the list or if she wanted them to actually learn the correct spelling.