Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
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Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML
Today, I received a terrible grade for an essay I worked really hard on. I had two friends, one being an English major, check it over. However, apparently I "clearly didn't use spellcheck" on this essay just like the last one I submitted to her. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, I had to re-grade a student's assignments because neither he, nor his parents can read "Spanish." I'd written in cursive. FML
Today, I'm grading final projects for a junior level college class. A student finally turned in their work, after months of encouragement and coaxing. Half of it was plain wrong, the rest had so many spelling and grammatical mistakes, it appeared to be written by a drunk autocorrect program. FML
Today, I lectured my second-grade class to be more descriptive in their writing. I gave them an assignment to describe something in the classroom. I was grading their work later, and one student wrote, "My class is taught by a fat teacher with gray hair." FML
Today, the feedback my teacher wrote on my English assignment was so horrible that it took me half an hour and help from both my parents to decipher it. It turned out to be a scathing criticism of my "poor communication skills". I hate my teachers. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
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RabbitOfAurora 28
I think that's a fair question depending on the class and what kind of teacher you are. Because if the point if the essay was say, structure. You might take the pressure off of them by forgiving a few spelling errors. I know I had teachers in high school that delayed whole exams by a week because the class as a collective didn't feel prepared and wanted more time to study.
socialproduct 19
If it's a typed essay, there's really no excuse for spelling errors.
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Arania79 3
As the parent of a dyslexic child, I don't see the problem with asking this. Granted, I would hope that the child would have an IEP in place taking this into consideration, but not every school system acknowledges it. As a teacher, I would hope this is something you would take into consideration.
wow2mylife 25
Florida is pretty good with alerting teachers about ieps
wow2mylife 25
try to add more to my reply but ran out of time js
monkeytater96 23
I've asked that myself many times. #noshame I've always sucked at spelling, a reason why I never made an A in elementary and middle school. Thank god for high school wanting typed papers with spell check that only works if you can spell well enough for it to catch it. Which, for me, often times was missed because I seriously suck at spelling!
groza528 17
Regardless of whether the teacher is grading based on spelling, no student should ever plan to slack off on mechanics. Asking this question is basically admitting that you don't plan to give this assignment your full effort and you're looking for the shortcuts.
infinitemonkey 21
The problem is that rich kids have spell checking word processing programs... So I would deduct some points, but not have that be the focus (unless it's an in class essay where everyone is writing).
Scarlet_S 5
"Rich kids"? More like anyone with access to a computer on which to type the paper.
FantasyMistwood 6
Even free word processors have spell check. Google does spell check too. Spell check is available to all, at least in the "developed" world.
DrCrankenstein 3
this is never a valid question. Spelling always matters. Doesn't matter the 'point' of the essay; the point is to judge your understanding and comprehension of the English language, and that includes spelling and grammar.
skull_palm 7
I believe that it's a fair question.
MrPotatoCannon 2
I don't see how this f*cked your life
drpepperking10 18
At my school it's a given that misspelling would mean point reduction.
Luxxi 18
I could understand this if it were an in-class, written essay. Spelling shouldn't detract from the overall grade in that case. But if it's to be typed, there's really no excuse for bad spelling.
Lalala579121 28
Hoo carez abowt speling anywayz?