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See, now, I donated all my little gift codes over to DonorsChoose already. And when you fund a project, the teacher writes a little thank you note. Usually this is just nice. Sometimes, though...
"The manipulative's that I will be receiving soon, will help my students grasp some very difficult math concepts through doing and not just memorizing."
This woman teaches third grade in a dual language program where not all the students are fluent in English. If she can't manage consistent apostrophe use, could she use her commas the right way? Either you stick one before "that i will be receiving soon" or you take them both away. How hard is this? She needs to start setting a better example.
And I know we all make mistakes sometimes (for example, I just typed "soemtimes"), but this is her public face. It's a letter of thanks to people who donated money to help her and her students. If it only takes a minute, use another minute to proofread it. Sending out something with mistakes and typos not only reflects badly upon her as a teacher, but it also is just unprofessional and, honestly, damn rude. If she doesn't care enough to make herself look good, why should we care enough to help her out? It's not even a matter of informal speech, or of dialects where you can (and I typically would) argue that different versions are appropriate in different situations. Okay, a chatty, breezy tone might not be what the style books would advise, but sometimes it's a good idea even in more formal letters. I can understand that, but this isn't that. This is just wrong-ness.
"The manipulative's that I will be receiving soon, will help my students grasp some very difficult math concepts through doing and not just memorizing."
This woman teaches third grade in a dual language program where not all the students are fluent in English. If she can't manage consistent apostrophe use, could she use her commas the right way? Either you stick one before "that i will be receiving soon" or you take them both away. How hard is this? She needs to start setting a better example.
And I know we all make mistakes sometimes (for example, I just typed "soemtimes"), but this is her public face. It's a letter of thanks to people who donated money to help her and her students. If it only takes a minute, use another minute to proofread it. Sending out something with mistakes and typos not only reflects badly upon her as a teacher, but it also is just unprofessional and, honestly, damn rude. If she doesn't care enough to make herself look good, why should we care enough to help her out? It's not even a matter of informal speech, or of dialects where you can (and I typically would) argue that different versions are appropriate in different situations. Okay, a chatty, breezy tone might not be what the style books would advise, but sometimes it's a good idea even in more formal letters. I can understand that, but this isn't that. This is just wrong-ness.
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Date: 2010-04-22 04:26 pm (UTC)Now I think they're at least running spellcheck after I complained several times and repeatedly offered to edit it. I think they got the "hint". (Hint, hah. It was as subtle as an anvil on the head.)
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Date: 2010-04-22 04:46 pm (UTC)Granted, the school name is Poynter and her spell checker changed it to Pointer, she told me when I pointed it out -- but, hello, make it an allowed change in your Word program!
I was pretty flabbergasted.