If a student did this....

mathyone
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:15:39 +0000

" But my wife and I have been stunned at how often we have gotten things from a school or teacher that were just chock full of grammatical and spelling errors. " A few errors like that will happen, especially if staff are over-worked or writing a quick update. If there are a lot of such errors, I’d conclude that the teacher is not well educated and has no business in the classroom. Of course I’ve seen a few errors in the school communications over the years, but nothing worthy of noting. Once, I received a printed “welcome letter” at the beginning of school from an experienced English teacher–the letter they send home on the first day with a few pages of general information about the class. This was obviously something she used every year on the first day of school, not a spontaneous email dashed off a few minutes before she ran out the door. It was very poorly written and shockingly full of errors. I told my kid, just be sure not to pick up any bad English from this teacher this year. That has only happened with one teacher, and so I have to think that your school has a lot of poorly trained teachers.