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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mounya 19
Also, if it's a paper being written in class, then the student may not be able to check how to spell a word that they are uncertain of which I'm sure happens to everyone. But I do agree that if it's being typed, then there's no excuse for mistakes in spelling.
captsnugglez153 5
I have had English teachers who didn't care about spelling or grammar if the essay was due the next day
regzilla69 1
Well, I think we have a comment which sadly summarizes the state of education today
Rabite 28
On essays we only got graded down if the number of errors was above a threshold. I really think this is the best solution. If you're focussed on the given task it is okay to make some slips but don't take it as an excuse to be sloppy.
ZaiopePerSe 15
How does this make your life suck? "Some kid in my class is an idiot, woe is me!"
margarito64 6
Mrs lee is this you???
gigiskye 20
Assuming the essay isn't that big of an assignment considering it was homework, this can be a reasonable question. Sometimes students can also just have a typo if they are online too. Obviously student aren't asking this about little words, just small ones. On big assignments or test I would get points off for spelling, but on a little assignment for homework, the important part of the essay is the content of it.
Ya_I_said_it 6
I once misspelled obiest ohbeast in english. I can not tell you how much I was yelled at. -worst part, it was an honest mistake having never come across the word before.
worldclassrager 41
It looks like he'll find out after turning it in...unless he gets the great idea to type it...unless that's against the rules...
blackrose1996 11
He could have a learning disability and can't spell very well until my IEP was put in place I would lose points for bad spelling I knew the words but couldn't spell them and I would fail papers. I have dyslexia and a non verbal learning disorder
wow2mylife 25
the teacher would known if he had an iep teachers in Florida is way noticed about it delt with it 13 years and depending what happened after the question he probably would told her js