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
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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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wow2mylife 25
seeing you from Florida that a fair question considering the standards sorry mad at it rn going to get voted down
Enira_fml 3
Actually, that's a somewhat relevant question, as in creative writing tasks, you may want them to be focusing on the content, genre or other skills than grammar and spelling. This didactic technique can be very liberating for students who struggle, particularly younger ones.
leah_kascar 8
I teach 10th grade English. Everyone in my class should know basic grammar already.
wow2mylife 25
still a valid question
leah_kascar 8
No it's not because my class isn't intensive. It's a normal class and I've made it very clear that good grammar is required on everything.
Echosence 1
Why isn't a marking scale avalible to your students?
Idontevenknowwhattoput 4
Sounds like most of my english classes were. Hang in there op! If you're lucky you might get a grammer nazi Shakespeare nerd like me eventually. Until then I'm afraid you'll probably have the challenging job of drilling a love of English into them. Also, this is why I'm never teaching highschool. :/ There is no individually or free thinking. Good luck to you op.
leah_kascar 8
My tenth grade English class is not intensive, and I've made it very clear that good grammar is required on everything.