Is it too much to ask that my kids’ teachers know at least a little more than my kids? I’m constantly getting emails from school staff with horrible grammar, misspellings, and, of course, what I call the spastic colon (is it really that hard to understand that plural’s don’t get colon’s apostrophe’s?).
It gets worse though. Last year, we regularly got classwork and homework back from our son’s second grade teacher that had things marked wrong that simply weren’t. Or “corrections” to answers he got right, that were themselves wrong. Truly pathetic.
Then a week or two ago we went to a living history performance by my son’s third grade science class. On the wall outside of the classroom was a map showing different Native tribes. Each area in which they lived was clearly labeled, including the one up top: Artic. Yes, Artic. Big, bold, letters. ARTIC.
Perhaps it’s to be expected though, in a town that had this booth at a recent event:
Oh, the humanity.
Hey New York: Can I come home NOW?
Sounds like my current state of Ohio, especially with the cornhole sign, lol
*snort* @ the sign.
I don’t want to say that’s why we homeschool, but…it is one of the reasons.
By the way, when you were talking colon, did you mean apostrophe?
Yes – of course apostrophe. But spastic apostrophe doesn’t really work, and since the people I’m talking about don’t know the difference, I go with spastic colons. I suppose I should have used apostrophe in the parens though; I think I underscored my point enough with the misuse of apostrophes there. So I fixed it.
I was just making sure I wasn’t too confused.
Since I fear a teacher or two hunting me down and burning me at the stake if I’m too honest, I’ll just say I whole heartedly agree with your post