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[Closed] Bad show for education from school - headmaster can't spell

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My 6 year old daughter won an award for hard work, determination, and a positive caring attitude in school 😀

She presented us with the certificate after the award ceremony and I was disgusted to see that the head can't even spell. Attitude was spelt attitute.

Should I raise this with the school and get them to redo the certificate? Really appalled that the head or his minion can't even spell a simple word.

Or should I donate a word processed with spell checking?


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 6:57 am
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What is "a word processed with spell checking"

Pan, kettle, black.

We all make mistakes. Keep it and lighten up would be my chosen option (take a "positive and caring" approach) 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:04 am
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Could be a simple typo- like "processed" rather than processor? 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:05 am
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That's what you get when typing on a iPad and not checking your auto corrected words. Damn technology. I'll shut up now.

Now where did I put my coat. 🙂


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:09 am
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People should be able to proof read their own text without resorting to spell checkers.


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:10 am
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I suppose the answer is to politely point out the error as you now know how easy it is to make one 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:11 am
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Pffft, I think you should be having a word with the daughter personally, it's sports awards or nothing in this household! Goody two shoes 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:17 am
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determination, and

Tut-tut; B minus. 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:19 am
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Our local council advertised a load of 'Deputy Head' jobs recently, except (on their own website) they said 'Depute Head'...


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:19 am
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attitude in school

C-


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:24 am
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Just correct it in red pen like teachers do and send it back to them with a little note telling them something along the lines of 'must try harder'


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:32 am
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Just correct it in red pen like teachers do and send it back to them with a little note telling them something along the lines of 'must try harder'

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Use a colour photocopy or similar, I think they'd see the funny side.


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:45 am
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I read somewhere that commas and 'and' can go together in 'modern' written english but not in the case above.


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 7:59 am
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My 8 year old son wrote: "they road the boat across the lake", and his teacher corrected "road" to "rode"! That's one of several spelling mistakes she's written in his literacy book!


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 8:07 am
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I read somewhere that commas and 'and' can go together in 'modern' written english but not in the case above.

Ah, the Oxford Comma. I always use it.

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My 8 year old son wrote: "they road the boat across the lake", and his teacher corrected "road" to "rode"! That's one of several spelling mistakes she's written in his literacy book!

Depends - if it was a ferry or something, then they rode it. If it was a rowboat, they rowed it.


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 8:22 am
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@bencooper- fair point except that the sentence was illustrating 2 people rowing a little boat!


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 8:28 am
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Ah 😉


 
Posted : 22/06/2013 9:16 am

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