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Oh. My. God.
Dec. 12th, 2011 04:52 pmToday, a speech pathologist came to talk to Evangeline's whole class and they did this little assignment on writing feeling words under pictures. "How do you think their voice would sound?"
This was the mom of one of the students, one of their Community Worker things. (I wish my dad were still here, he'd love to go in to talk about his life as a rabble rouser!)
The back of the assignment is a note to the parents. It is so full of problems that I just about ran down the stairs (on my hurt ankle!) to write it up for you guys.
Everything here is exactly as written.
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See, ladies and gentlemen, this is why you always need somebody to proofread your work. Maybe you're a poor typist, or learned English later in life, or went to a crappy school where nobody taught you how to punctuate. Maybe she typed this up in a bit of a rush. Regardless, it comes off as incredibly unprofessional. It is unprofessional, and when you're representing yourself as a member of your profession you want to look good! Heck, most of us want to look good all the time. I wouldn't stick a note in Evangeline's lunchbox that was this poorly edited. I have been known to rewrite notes just because I had too many crossouts.
This woman also gave her daughter a "creative" spelling of a common name. I had thought it was just in poor taste*, but now I wonder if she just didn't know better.
Maybe my mother would like to go in and talk about the importance of proofreading, and always writing, spelling, and punctuating correctly... or at least consistently.
*Creative spellings of common names mean your kid spends her life correcting people's spelling. I never understood why you'd want to do that to your kid. That's one thing a better orthography would fix, although no doubt to get any such thing pushed through you'd have to promise to let people keep their names as they are.
This was the mom of one of the students, one of their Community Worker things. (I wish my dad were still here, he'd love to go in to talk about his life as a rabble rouser!)
The back of the assignment is a note to the parents. It is so full of problems that I just about ran down the stairs (on my hurt ankle!) to write it up for you guys.
Everything here is exactly as written.
( Read more... )
See, ladies and gentlemen, this is why you always need somebody to proofread your work. Maybe you're a poor typist, or learned English later in life, or went to a crappy school where nobody taught you how to punctuate. Maybe she typed this up in a bit of a rush. Regardless, it comes off as incredibly unprofessional. It is unprofessional, and when you're representing yourself as a member of your profession you want to look good! Heck, most of us want to look good all the time. I wouldn't stick a note in Evangeline's lunchbox that was this poorly edited. I have been known to rewrite notes just because I had too many crossouts.
This woman also gave her daughter a "creative" spelling of a common name. I had thought it was just in poor taste*, but now I wonder if she just didn't know better.
Maybe my mother would like to go in and talk about the importance of proofreading, and always writing, spelling, and punctuating correctly... or at least consistently.
*Creative spellings of common names mean your kid spends her life correcting people's spelling. I never understood why you'd want to do that to your kid. That's one thing a better orthography would fix, although no doubt to get any such thing pushed through you'd have to promise to let people keep their names as they are.
