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To: Clara Lou
to my How about English? Did your students "past" that? :o)

you answered: The spelling police strikes again.

Spelling or grammar?

The thing is, when teachers are posting with continued misspellings and grammatical errors and erroneous mathematical postulations - (and the misspellings could be easily caught with the handy-dandy spell check) shouldn't they be held to at least an equal standard?

I would, for example, expect to get a higher level of service for, say, a new deck built by a contractor than a handy man.

The troubling thing is the level of expertise of many teachers today as compared with a few decades ago.

For example: Teachers were finally tested, a few years ago, here in N.E., for competency in their fields. The vast majority flunked miserably. They were given a second chance a few months later. The now knew what the tests consisted of.

They had not improved.

I am also impressed, or maybe unimpressed would be more accurate, with handwritten notes from teachers and even principals that is about the level of what a 4th grader used to be. (I'm not referring to handwriting that looks rushed or 'like a doctor's' - but it looks like a 4th grader!)

181 posted on 06/17/2006 9:36:32 AM PDT by maine-iac7 (Lincoln: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.")
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To: maine-iac7
The thing is, when teachers are posting with continued misspellings and grammatical errors and erroneous mathematical postulations - (and the misspellings could be easily caught with the handy-dandy spell check) shouldn't they be held to at least an equal standard?

I might agree with you if your talking about a writing an important assignment, etc. and there were gross mispellings. However, to simply say because your a teacher you can't misspell words on a Saturday morning on an informal board. Give me a break. Now your just nitpicking.

185 posted on 06/17/2006 9:45:26 AM PDT by alvindsv
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To: maine-iac7
Posting on this forum is not the same as writing a formal paper or even communicating professionally with parents. I repeat: Shall we pull up all of your posts and check your spelling and grammar for perfection? Focusing on others' spelling and grammar is petty.
The [sic] now knew what the tests consisted of.
Oh, I see you have a grammar error! Or is it spelling? Since you're so erudite, I think that we should hold you to your own standard.
233 posted on 06/17/2006 11:27:49 AM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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