OT Note from School

Ah, well. At least they did have a calendar to get the dates right. Polly

"NightMist"

Yikes! I'm afraid that's all I can say, or I'd go off on a rant that wouldn't stop until Sunday!

That brings the shudders as much as when a now-retired Deputy Executive Officer at my court would send out a court-wide email with grammar and spelling errors. And the one judge who sent out a court- wide email this week with terrible spelling.

G> I will happily make pie and punch for everybody who wants to make a

Hi Nightmist,

"What KIND of pie?" - Robert Redford, "The Way We Were"

Oh, would I have some fun with that school...

I was going to bust your chops about misspelling "mangling" but upon covering my behind I find that either is correct. ;-)

Doc

I thought that I was past horrid grammar when I left teaching and went to law school. I was mistaken. I received a letter from an attorney whose new client had not shown up for his hearing date, lost his license, and then decided it was time to hire an attorney. The attorney wrote a letter protesting the revocation of the license during a hearing on default, saying that his client had "elected to stand moot". I also got a chewing out from a judge once when I called him to say that it appeared that some of his letterhead had gone astray and that it appeared that his signature had been forged. He asked why I thought that, and I told him that my office had received what appeared to be a court order on his letterhead which not only met none of the legal requirements and appeared to violate several laws, but also denied my client due process and was full of misspellings and grammatical errors. At that point he informed me that he had personally executed that order and that if my client did not follow that order that he would have me arrested! Those documents were among those out staff posted on a "Hall of Shame" bulletin board in the back of the law library.

There seem to be more people standing moot every day. Polly

"Mary" I thought that I was past horrid grammar when I left teaching and went

Most of you know that I am lucky enough to go from SC to FL during the coldest Winter months. Our Park manager sends out notices to all the residents about once a month. Each 1/2 page notice contains a minimum of 10 typos or grammar errors. It has gotten so we are asking each other "how many errors did you count in THIS notice?" Barbara in SC

One small town newspaper in one of the 'small towns' we once lived in would put in errors on purpose. On the last page, bottom right corner, it would say how many INTENTIONAL errors there were. People would call in every week with the number they found. Showed people not only read the paper but paid attention to what they read :)

Butterfly

Rather like a Where's Waldo, huh? My spelling and grammar are both pretty good....my typing is sometimes the issue. I go a bit nuts when I read one of my own posts that is misspelled.

My spelling is ok. My grammer stinks. My typing is marginal. I don't educate children in grammer though. I don't have a law degree either. I figure for the most part we are pretty casual around here. The payoff is just in our sharing and kinship. That is kind of a whole different thing.

I celebrated the day my daughter (the baby) graduated from high school and I was done dealing with public education. I don't know how the really good folks there deal with all the bad ones.

I do hope Ash has a great time at the trip to the zoo. Taria

Frightening, isn't it? I was a teacher, and I used to cringe at what went out of the office of our school. :(

Should be "grammar" instead of "grammer". VBG :)

Julia > My spelling is ok. My grammer stinks. My typing is

This really hits a nerve with me. I guess I'm from the old-school mentality where spelling and penmanship are still important. My sis got her grandson's spelling test. One word was "arctic." The teacher marked it wrong, with the correction, "artic." The other was inauguration. The teacher marked it wrong, and made the correction, "inauguaration."

I was really livid and goaded her into faxing the spelling test to the school board. If you're gonna teach 7th graders, AND CANNOT SPELL well enough to grade papers, for crying out loud, use a dictionary.

Sherry

I have a friend whose son was marked wrong for "air conditioning"; the teacher's correction was "the correct spelling, as EVERYONE knows, is air condishunning." (Upon the mother producing a dictionary, the teacher simply asserted that the **dictionary** was wrong; upon the mother going to the principal, she was told that the teacher could not be overruled. Shudder.)

I find such incidences horrifying, especially since when they're brought to the attention of higher-ups, and they dismiss the situation as insignificant, and look at the literate adult as if they're a bit crazy to care.....

--pig

My elder DD once brought home a grammar test while attending middle school. The test concerned the use of lie/lay and sit/set. The teacher had graded the test incorrectly (marking DD's correct responses as wrong), so I wrote a very polite note to him to explain what was really correct. That was the last time he allowed a test to come home. I ended up telling DD to tell me what had been on the tests from then on, and I'd tell her what she *should* have answered, despite what the nincompoop teacher had said. The principal was no help at all. The teacher concerned had been bounced from one school to another all over the local district, since his original principal had neglected to document the obvious shortcomings. Once the nincompoop had tenure, there was really no way to get rid of him. :S

Oh NO! Please tell me this isn't true! That's more than horrifying!! If the principal didn't overrule...then I'd go to the school board!! Incredible!

I wouldn't sit still for that either!!

A friend calls me often asking how to spell a word or which is the right word. Curious, I asked one time why she didn't just use spell-check or a dictionary. "They just confuse me" she said. She's a teacher. Polly

When my daughter was in the 7th grade, at her teacher/parent conference, I asked why my daughter was allowed to use green ink on the assignments she turned in. Teacher said she didn't care what color she used. I told HER that I did and that she was to accept nothing in ink but blue or black. Had no more problems. Geesh!

Donna in WA