The short report, sent by a form tutor at Gleed Girls' Technology College,
in Lincolnshire, was littered with misspellings and grammatical errors
Posted on 11/30/2010 6:03:31 AM PST by Cardhu
A headteacher has been forced to make a grovelling apology after a bungling teacher sent a school report to a pupil littered with at least FOURTEEN grammatical errors.
The short report sent by the schoolgirl's form tutor was strewn with misspellings, incorrect apostrophe use and bad sentence construction.
Shockingly, the first error can be found in the subject line of the email, titled: '...... form tutor report for parents everning'.
The teacher, from Gleed Girls' Technology College, Spalding, Lincolnshire, misspells 'attendance' twice, opting instead for 'attandence' and 'attenance' while other errors include 'requriements', 'occaisions' and 'boardering'.
The mother of the student, neither of whom wished to be named, said she was appalled by the email.
She said: ‘What concerns me most is that this teacher is supposed to be responsible for raising my daughter's educational standards.
‘If her standards are that low, how can she expect my daughter's to be high?
‘By the time I got to the third paragraph I'd noted five mistakes. I would always check an email before clicking “send”.’
Some of the report was critical of the pupil, but her mother insisted she had not highlighted the grammar issue as retaliation.
She was keen to stress that there was no 'bad blood' between her and the school, but she felt that the lapse in standards needed to be highlighted.
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Teachers don’t educate anymore anyways
He can get any head to apologize!
Looks to me like someone had just enjoyed a few pints of bitter before sending off that email.
There is no excuse for this but a lot of people don’t treat emails like they do other correspondence. Way too many people type and push send without proof reading the email. Take a look at the emails you get at work. I get a bunch filled with abbreviations, all lower case, spelling mistakes, no punctuation. More evidence that the West has become sloppy and undisciplined.
Well, you are a fool.
The Dumbing Down of The Masses is now begetting teachers of the same ilk.
Maintaining high standards is either racist, sexist, or harms an applicant’s self esteem. This is what you get when you value diversity above competence.
The writer of that email is also a product of an educational system. It is a hybrid of street (ebonics) braided with some ‘formal’ english. The writer was passed through the ranks, will soon be finished tutoring, and will then have a Bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate in something.
I thought we needed more evidence to determine whether the teacher is guilty or not. ;-)
I don’t think this can be readily excused as some of those quaint little differences between American and British English...although it’s fairly easy to see some besotted British school teacher with a pint glass of Watney’s Red Barrel on her desk looking up and greeting you with a “Good everning!”
I use Word 2007 and Outlook 2007 and it definitely does this.
Oh my, I hope they’ dont have a looking at wat my write.
The grammar in this sentence is not correct. Should be, "I was shocked to receive this poorly written email."
True, owheffer it is pissable for a mischievous parson to moss with the dikshunairee.
Many’s the time an excreble email littered with red wavy lines indicating poor spelling, has landed on my desk, and the blame for all the apparent misspellings lies with the Microsoft spell checker defaulting to British English on my PC (as it should) but not on the sender’s.
Windows 2000 and earlier had this annoying tendency of flipping over to American locale settings even on machines that are brute force configured differently; not just spelling but printing got affected.
“PC Load Letter”. The bane of the British IT techie - our printers use ISO standard A4 paper like 80% of rest of the globe does, but Microsoft simply wouldn’t have it. “No, I think I’ll ignore your regional settings and spool this print job to US Letter instead”. Gah.
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I think there's a French influence. 
"Good Moaning"
Whenever a teacher sent a note home, I would correct the spelling mistakes and grammar with a red pen and send them back with a request for one that was readable...
I expected the teacher to be able to read and write better than my children...
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