My son is in Kindergarten and on several hand-outs to the parents there have been quite a few misspellings. There is also a lot of mixing up of same sounding words such as "our" and "are". Her sentence structure is also very basic. I am willing to let that one go because I figure her mind is like that from dealing with Kindergartners all day.
I just would like her to know so she isn't thought of poorly by the other parents.
2006-10-04 05:38:23 · 22 answers · asked by parkdad73 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Ha! I thought surely our school MUST be the only one with all the horribly spelled and mis-punctuated handouts! This drives me NUTS!!! I mean, if they can't put SIMPLE grammar together and distinguish between "their" and "there", "when" and "win", and of course "our" and "are", what in the world are the kids learning? Scary.......
2006-10-04 07:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Designchc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is the basic problem why your child is not getting a decent education. He will grow up thinking, and reacting, and learning like her, she willnot take lessons from her.
I would get on her case and the schools as both are at fault. It's a job, retirement, health benefits, and all of the things which go with being a teacher for her. For these benefits in her job she is supposed to come prepaired as well as educated. For your son it's his future, his family and health all of which will not be very healthy unless he is educated.
You cannot have a barber train a plumbing apprentist to plumb and you cannot have an uneducated adult train a child to be an educated adult.
If parents do not force their school boards to hire good teachers than their children will suffer.
Contact Your school board about the teacher and get other parents ot do the same. Let hem know second or twenty'th best is not enough.
2006-10-04 12:55:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a student-teacher in a high school, although I spent the last two years working full-time as an ESL teacher to adults.
There is NO excuse for her to send home documents with misspelled words and incorrect grammar. She is (or should be) a role model to the students. Young children are like sponges and they absorb everything around them- do you want your kid to absorb her bad habits? The fact that she doesn't seem to proof-read her work is probably indicative of her organizational skills and the amount of time she spends checking to make sure her work has been done well.
In addition to being a teacher, I have also been an immigrant in a country where I didn't speak the language. It would have been irresponsible of me to have accepted a job that I was not qualified to do. She has not proven that she is capable of teaching young children, and the issue needs to be addressed with the principal.
2006-10-04 22:34:08 · answer #3 · answered by Jetgirly 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've had the same situation - which was difficult because the teacher was a minority in the school system.
Even so it was brought up to the administration and others within the district, their hands were tied BECAUSE she was female and a minority.
My choice was to pull my child out of class and homeschool her or teach her the difference between proper and improper English.
I also had to re-teach my child correct geography... Ohio is NOT a part of the northeast - although this teacher pointed out that it was a part of the same region of the US as NY, PA, MA, etc...
It is amazing the great lengths employers will go to in order to meet certain equal opportunity laws.
Pathetic.
2006-10-04 14:27:47 · answer #4 · answered by Vicki70 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There must be a Vice Principal at the school. Why not let that person know. Unfortunately alot of kids are getting out of school with the same skills in english as you mention. She either knows how to spell or not, and in this case I would say not. If she is just out of school, making an issue of this may help her in years to come, but if she is middle age, I doubt she would be able to change. Let sleeping dogs lie. She is not teaching your child to read, so no harm done. If she was teaching a more advanced grade it would be a serious issue. The important thing is, does your child like her. If so, be thankful for that.
2006-10-04 12:54:52 · answer #5 · answered by 2hot 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This person is +teaching+?!!
Collect the handouts and present _copies_ of them to your local board of education. If nothing is done about this incompetent PDQ, then present copies of them to the local newspaper along with a letter to the editor.
If that does not good, then you may have to escalate to the state BofE.
I appreciate your leniency on her behalf, but there is no excuse for such issues in a teacher, whether she spends all day with kindergartners or not.
2006-10-04 12:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I would anonymously circle mistakes and mail it to the principal of the school. It may sound petty, but I've been a teacher and sometimes, teachers take this sort of thing out on the child of the parent that complains.
It's not right that a teacher's correspondence with parents should have multiple errors!
2006-10-10 16:12:59 · answer #7 · answered by Jennifer A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! In a kind way, talk to the teacher first. Let her know that this is important to you, and why it is important. If that doesn't work, then go to the Principal (or v.p. first), Superintendent, school board, etc. Teachers at all levels should be modeling the proper use of the English language, even if the kids aren't tested on those things at that level.
2006-10-04 14:40:30 · answer #8 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As far as I am concerned, it is perfectly acceptable for you to go to any lengths to change your child's situation. I once heard my daughter's second grade teacher telling a parent that her child had done "good" on a test and couldn't believe it. What is going on with our school system?! I don't know whether you should go to the teacher herself, or directly to the principal. Maybe she is having older children print the hand-outs and is not checking them (hopefully). If that is not the case, she has no business being a teacher and the principal needs to know!
2006-10-04 12:56:04 · answer #9 · answered by Ms. G. 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-07 02:56:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would first find out if she's a second language learner. Perhaps somebody else (parent aide) is typing her letters for her.
Once you have figured out the background to the situation, you might want to politely mention to her that her papers are going home with several obvious mistakes. I'm sure that she would want to know that others are doubting her competence as a teacher because of poor writing -- especially if it isn't even hers.
2006-10-04 15:12:14 · answer #11 · answered by turtlesurf73 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋