spell check

I were to be the district school head I would probably ask my secretary or any language teacher in my district to edit my work before distributing it. There were just some people who are not really good with that skill.

That's funny. I know when they are hyper-critical, it makes it so tempting to point out their own errors. I know we all make mistakes but I think I would expect more from a teacher. On the flip side of the hyper-critical are the teachers that don't correct spelling or punctuation at all. There are so many kids graduating from highschool that don't know these things. There should be a happy medium somewhere, heh?

My mom once got pretty upset when I came home with a note that had been sent home school wide. I was in first grade. She found spelling and grammatical errors and was kind of disturbed. I believe she spoke to my teacher about it. I mean she was working as well as my dad to send me to a private school, the least they could do was spell check.

hi 3snugglebunnies I am not great at spelling but it's more that I try to type as fast as my brain works and thus typos galore but good old spelling checker on firefox red lines my errors and I try to correct before hitting post. that teacher with her tutor coud work needs to proof read her work before sending it out to the parents. teachers surely are supposed to know how to spell could for heavens' sakes.yes it would give pause to me too if I had a nine year old dyslexic child and a teacher who could not spell could.

It is annoying when the people who are supposed to be teaching our children cannot even do what they are teaching.

Each term when my step kids report cards come home my husband and I sit down together to read them, as I'm sure most parents do. We try to really take in what the teachers are saying so that we can best aid the kids while here at home. Each and every single term is amazes us how the "english" teacher's have spelling and grammar mistakes in their comments. Most of the other teachers comments have an error or two as well, but I think as parents, knowing these people are teaching our kids, we expect that the english teachers above all would have correctly spelled comments! The other little treat we are entitled to is that two of my step kids are twins and in the same class. Their report cards each and every term, for all 4 years that they have been in school, no matter the teacher they have had, have identical...and I mean word for word, paragraph for paragraph report cards. The only thing that will differ is the actual letter grade and maybe the addition of a small comment. I have honestly read the exact same comment on the same section of each of their report cards and then saw that their letter grade was different. If the teacher describes them verbally as having the exact same skills and abilities then why are they not receiving the same grade? I wonder is it possible that the teachers for the past 4 years have not realized that their copy and paste method of grading children is somewhat backfiring? Do they not realize that the twins are being sent home with identical comments? Sometimes I think our school systems don't quite allow for the proper evaluation and care into our children's education as they should.

I love and practically worship the Spell Check on my Microsoft Word because I know that if I didn't have it, then I would have problems with many of my papers. When it comes to people with Dyslexia be patient, but also know that there are ways of helping these people. My friend would have her teachers write the words on the chalk board and recite them to her. She would also read books with the audio tapes, and watch films with the subtitles in them. She would also watch television with the subtext or text print on. That way she could see the words on the screen and watch people read them. For the record, my friend graduated from Cal Poly Pomona with a degree in Philosophy, and she is Dyslexic, so if she can do it, then anyone Dyslexia can. We live in an age of technology where people who have Dyslexia don't have to suffer in silence with their condition. There is so much help out there if she is really willing to learn. People with Dyslexia have to learn the form and shape of the words. Learning just the letters isn't going to cut it because of the way they see the letters, and yes, they do need Spell Check more than anything when it comes to writing papers.

I agree!! When the dates don't match up I ask "which is it? Monday, or April 17th? It can't be both." As for spelling, my mother is an educational assistant, and works with kids from special needs ranging from Dyslexia, to very severe Autism. The other day she saw a note on the board that used "their" when she should have written "they're." My mother left her response to the note, and CORRECTED the teacher's original error in RED PEN. All I could say way "BRAVO MAMA!!!" Teachers need to be PERFECT if they are going to teach. I know, nobody's perfect, and typos are possible, but to be a teacher and not know "their, they're and there" for example, is unexcuseable!

I know one thing, If I were to work for a school system as an english teacher I'd want to make sure I knew what I was talking about and correct all of my errors. It makes me wonder if they are using siri or the swype haha like they have on cellphones. Now this does make me think of when I was in school. If I remember correctly one of my teachers, I think it was a health teacher, didn't spell things right. He said tht if he wanted to spell things right he'd have become an english teacher! haha!

I actually had a similar complaint during this past school session, but I didn't say anything to anyone. Spelling and grammar count for 10% of each grade for each written assignment. In one particular assignment the teacher said if we don't use all caps (on a practice medical claim) we'd automatically lose 10 points.. even for 1 lower case letter. So these tiny little things add up big time and I could lose my A grade for something so minimal. Yet in my final exam directions the teacher said we were to do a practice claim for patient Jose Valasquez, case study 16.3. The problem was, case study 16.3 was Donna Green. Jose Valasquez was actually case study 16.13. Her little typo is actually enough to make someone do the completely wrong assignment and probably get a 0! That wasn't the only typo. When I went to upload that particular claim to the drop box, the directions on the drop box said to upload part 2 of the final project, but it was supposed to be the drop box for part 3 of the final project. Again, a minor error that could lead to a huge mistake if someone didn't take the time to make sure they were doing things right. There were many other typos and errors this session.. in discussion, in instructions, in announcements. Each time I noticed one I did think to myself how many points I would lose off my over-all grade if I'd made a similar mistake. Anyway, I'm really glad this session is over! It seemed like it was nothing but problems. The quizzes we take are usually automatically graded, but in one class for some reason all the answers were wrong, so the teacher had to go in each week and correct each quiz herself, and she couldn't figure out how to correct the problem in the system. Then, earlier on in one of the classes we had to do some assignments on a different website, but the teacher hadn't loaded the right class for us. All the assignments said they were past due and we couldn't get into them because we were all registered in a previous course that had finished instead of the correct course. It took her a few days to fix the problem. Not to mention the directions that she posted in week 2, which I downloaded and saved.. that somehow mysteriously changed before week 7 when the assignment was due, so I ended up doing the wrong assignment and had to redo the whole stinken thing!

This reminded me of something I read a while ago. Some workers were painting street sign in front of a school, and when it was finished it's spelled "Shcool" That's got to be the most embarassing mistake ever. And I think they ended up spending more money to correct it...

That is so embarrassing... I mean, if I was the spelling teacher, I'd make sure about 20 times that something I write and is handed out to the kids and parents is written with flawless spelling. I can be a bit of a grammar/spelling freak (mostly when it comes to Hungarian spelling, because I'm a Hungarian, but still...), and it's kind of sad to see how professional people-companies, offices etc.-spell in letters and campaigns. My favourite one is the Hungarian department store Mammut (mammoth in English)-I mean, it is truly named off of mammoths, because when it was opened, they handed out plush mammoth toys and all that jazz... just in Hungarian, mammotuóh is called and spelled mamut, with one m in the middle! So we have a grammatically wrong named department store... and that was just one example.