Teacher vent

[NikiM20]

First, let me say I work with the school system as an aide and I am currently working on my certification.

I had to email one of DDs teachers about a problem. Throughout this series of emails, she consistently used wrong words, wrong tenses etc. Am I wrong to expect my childs teacher to write correctly?

 

[paintnolish]

See later post!

 

[Tinkmom75]

IMHO I agree with you. Is she using all lowercase with no punctuation? Is she writing like a text or is it just mistakes? This person is teaching your child. I would expect them to know how to write.

 

[diznygirl]

First, let me say I work with the school system as an aide and I am currently working on my certification.

I had to email one of DDs teachers about a problem. Throughout this series of emails, she consistently used wrong words, wrong tenses etc. Am I wrong to expect my childs teacher to write correctly?

Maybe. How do you feel about your writing?

 

[Liberty Belle]

Perhaps she was in a hurry, like you were with your post.

It does bug me, though. I'm a para, too, and I hate it when I see words in newsletters misspelled.

 

[rabyoga]

As a teacher, I try to be thoughtful about my grammar. Emails, especially, I tend to do very quickly on my lunchtime, or when there is a break. I don't always catch the mistakes..

 

[alexandria674]

To be fair, when one is teaching English they tend to be very careful about punctuation and sentence structure. However, when writing in email, you can be very hurried and so some of the things you would notice in your own writing can come out wrong.

 

[NikiM20]

She is her pe teacher at the middle school level. Typos I understand, but she keeps using the wrong words over and over. And this was not 1 email but many with the same mistakes.

 

[Tinkmom75]

I wouldn't worry so much about a PE teacher.

 

[Liberty Belle]

She is her pe teacher at the middle school level. Typos I understand, but she keeps using the wrong words over and over. And this was not 1 email but many with the same mistakes.

I understand how that can be annoying, but since she is her P.E. teacher, I wouldn't be too upset. I work with a para who, honestly, can barely read fluently. I really don't know how she got the job, let alone keeps it. Today she was talking about another classroom and said, "They be playin' at that time."

 

[paintnolish]

Well, since it is the gym teacher, I wouldn't be too concerned. I didn't do a lot of writing in gym class! It may be annoying, but I highly doubt it is harming anyone.
That being said, I am studying to teach high school English and will student teach in fall. I make mistakes. My professors make mistakes! I save my intense scrutiny for graded papers!

 

[NikiM20]

I work with pk and I get someone to proof anything I write because I know I am not the best writer/ speller. Thank goodness for spell check and grammer check. Unfortunately I don't have that on my phone.

 

[sparklynails23]

First, let me say I work with the school system as an aide and I am currently working on my certification.

I had to email one of DD" ' "s teachers about a problem. Throughout this series of emails, she consistently used wrong words, wrong tenses"," etc. Am I wrong to expect my child" ' "s teacher to write correctly?

Apparently, anyone can make grammar and punctuation mistakes. Maybe she was e-mailing from her phone. People tend to make more mistakes on their phone keyboards.

 

[NikiM20]

Apparently, anyone can make grammar and punctuation mistakes. Maybe she was e-mailing from her phone. People tend to make more mistakes on their phone keyboards.

I also was not writing a letter to a parent. Punctuation would not have bothered me. The use of the wrong word multiple times is what got me.

 

[lajones81]

She is her pe teacher at the middle school level. Typos I understand, but she keeps using the wrong words over and over. And this was not 1 email but many with the same mistakes.

There are bigger problems in the world than the misuse of the English language!

 

[golfgal]

She is her pe teacher at the middle school level. Typos I understand, but she keeps using the wrong words over and over. And this was not 1 email but many with the same mistakes.

Maybe she was using correct words and YOU are the one that uses the wrong word

The PE teacher at our kids' old school was the same way. She couldn't even spell common words like "paper"(papper). If a child missed gym class they had to write a 2 page paper for "make-up" work-which is silly and another thread altogether. Well, one papper she sent back with "corrections" and didn't accept the paper so my son didn't get a grade for that make up work. The problem was, her "corrections" were all wrong. We had a chat about that one though.

Since you work at the school it might be a good idea--if you can come up with a tactful way to do it--to talk to her about this and let her know how unprofessional this is because I am sure you aren't the only one that has had this problem.

 

[NikiM20]

Since you work at the school it might be a good idea--if you can come up with a tactful way to do it--to talk to her about this and let her know how unprofessional this is because I am sure you aren't the only one that has had this problem.

I dont work at this school, just in the same parish. DD would die if I worked at the same school she went to.

FWIW.....She would say absent instead of absence. She even told me how DD had an excused absent .

 

[diznygirl]

I dont work at this school, just in the same parish. DD would die if I worked at the same school she went to.

FWIW.....She would say absent instead of absence. She even told me how DD had an excused absent .

Maybe she's typing on her phone and the phone is "helping" with the words and she's just letting it go.

I wouldn't sweat it. Apparently there is a lot of sloppy typing.

 

[TheDisneyGirl02]

This may sound strange, but is English her first language? When my husband and I were started to look into buying a home, our real estate agent was not originally from the United States. She spoke English very well, but when she would email us, it just wasn't done 'correctly'.

Just a possibilty that I thought about when I read the OP.

 

[IHeartTink04]

I am a teacher and I can tell you that I usually answer emails very quickly during short breaks and its very easy to make mistakes!

Give the teacher a break!