lrn2spel, teach
This FML is from back in 2013 but it's good stuff
Mogadore, United States
Underfunded and underappreciated
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
Top comments
MisUnFortunate 31
Sounds like just about everyone on this site. "You made one mistake, you don't deserve to live."
IllestRated 17
Tell her to go back to SCHOL then.
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boating_guy 33
I read this and kept thinking, "Please don't be in the USA. Pleaseee don't be in the USA." But, of course it is. F this Country's Future.
Kiki242 19
A bit over dramatic? Spelling mistakes happen in all countries. I can also say from the friends I have that the future isn't completely dark. There are intelligent people in this generation and in America in general.
junkman6 22
The US future is fine. Bad public education just keeps things the way they are. Idiotic consumers is a pretty secure foothold in the world economy.
Mshrodes 13
#21, hate doesn't even begin to express how I feel about your comment.
TheDrifter 24
Why the hate? Public education was designed to keep the majority of the population as mindless consumers and compliant followers of government. It's been in place nearly a hundred years, no need to get upset now just because you finally realized it wasn't designed for students to succeed in life.
RedPillSucks 33
Public education was designed to raise the education level of the populous. Unfortunately, politicians have decided to gut public education by reducing its funding so that teacher are paid less. I can't tell you how many school systems I've been in where the teachers have to pay for supplies out of their own pockets. Poorer school systems work harder for less pay. Richer systems subsidize what the state pays so they can hire better teachers, while the poor and middle class get screwed out of a decent education. Its not the fault of the teachers.
junkman6 22
#70 hating it doesn't make it any less true. It just means that you don't like hearing facts that hurt your feelings.
carelessxdanger 9
i'd call her out on it if i were you.
Steve95401 49
One word - spellcheck
hunts19ketchup 23
Uhh... two words: spell check. And when I was in high school, teachers graded essays by hand. I can't imagine that much has changed in 5 years...
DanielleinDC 34
Yes, because spell check can catch when someone types "your" when the proper word is "you're". Or "threw/through" or any of the other examples of homonyms in the English language. It won't catch if you type the wrong word or leave an "l" out of "public". And there are probably plenty of teachers who know the educational system is ****** and would agree with OP. I find it ironic that when writing a note criticizing someone's spelling, a teacher misspells a word as fundamental as "school".
1947Chevy 17
69 you would be surprised. Some schools are completely computerized now
xnyletak 17
Gotta love public education.
foxy_grampa 19
And right there is the problem itself
CyberGothic 16
I sincerely hope that you made a photocopy of it and, in red pen, highlighted the teacher's error and wrote an appropriately non-condescending corrective message, then delivered the paper to the PRINCIPAL of the school.
GhostDuck 30
The irony is strong in this one.
Enslaved 38
She's a teacher and you're criticizing the educational system? I'd say it's easy for her to take your essay extremely personal, though it might be just in this case.
Mshrodes 13
Actually, teachers are usually the ones that are the most critical of the educational system.
sunnyray812 42
Talk about hypocrite! She shouldn't be a teacher.
BubbaJ80 11
Call the teacher out on the mistake they made