I’m really bad - I make corrections in books.if they are my own, right on the page, if the book is someone else’s or from the library I use post-it notes.
I spent 12 years in Catholic schools and through 4th grade we had between 50 and 60 in a class. It wasn’t until I was in HS was I ever in a class with less than 35, never mind less than 20 like some of my daughter’s classes have been.
As you mentioned to another poster, there are teachers who actually do teach, and teach properly. Alas, few ever hear of them. I have tried to make a point of letting the PTB know how I feel about the exceptional teachers my daughter has had, they deserve the credit. I also have found that by doing so, on the few occasions I have had a serious issue with a teacher my concern was not blown off.
I truly feel for teachers who are subjected to the type of parents, usually mothers, who will not accept the fact their precious angel is not all that.
Have you see this here?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2932405/posts?page=1
While typing this I recalled two of my seventh grade teacher’s examples. One was talking about the rule of never ending a sentence with a prepostion (she never told us what the punishment would be!) and giving us the quote “up with with I have been fed”. The other was from a student who was writing a paper “I could smell my mother in the kitchen frying hamburgers”. Still makes me laugh after all these years. Fortunately I’ve forgotten those little traumatic experiences of early childhood! Guess I should say I got over them.