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Must try arder! Teacher sends off a school report ...with 16 errors in it

It reads as though it was written by a schoolchild – and a below-average student at that.
But this brief note, riddled with 16 grammatical errors and spelling mistakes, was actually the work of a teacher.
The report was sent by email to the parents of a pupil in the state school teacher's class, summarising the girl’s performance over the previous year.

The short report, sent by a form tutor at Gleed Girls' Technology College, in Lincolnshire, was littered with misspellings and grammatical errors (including uncircled '7's and 8's')


But yesterday her mother said that all it really did was raise questions about the teacher's own ability.

Alongside simple spelling mistakes such as 'requriements' and 'occaisions', were misplaced apostrophes, missing letters and embarrassing typos such as 'ativities’ and ‘everning'.


The unnamed teacher at 800-pupil Gleed Girls’ Technology College, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, committed her first two errors in the email’s subject heading, before the note even began.


The pupil's mother said: 'What concerns me most is that this teacher is supposed to be responsible for raising my daughter’s educational standards.

'If her standards are that low, how can she expect my daughter’s to be high?


'By the time I got to the third paragraph I’d noted five mistakes.


Liz Shawhulme, who is head teacher of the school, says she will apologise personally to the girl's mother



'I would always check an email before I clicked send.
'I am very happy with the school in all other aspects of their dealings with my daughter. But I just received this email and was shocked at how poorly written it was.'

The all-girls school’s website says it is a ‘trailblazing’ institution which has an 'excellent reputation locally and nationally’, although the school is rated only as 'satisfactory' by Ofsted.


The watchdog concluded its most recent inspection report in October 2007 by ordering the school to improve the 'quality of teaching and learning’.


Only days ago Education Secretary Michael Gove called for teachers to clamp down on poor spelling and grammar.


Yesterday, the school’s head, Liz Shawhulme, said she was ‘shocked by the number of mistakes, many of which appear to be typos'.


'It was obviously written in haste and not checked but this is no excuse and I will be contacting the parent to apologise.’


Marie Clair, of the Plain English Campaign, said: ‘Teachers who do this should wear their own dunces' hats.'


Read more: Headteacher forced to apologise for school report littered with spelling mistakes | Mail Online

This article has made me giggle. The Daily Mail reporting on bad spelling? The words 'pot', 'kettle' and black come to mind.

^ just read your comment after I posted, and we seem to agree somewhat.

The teacher was probably marking a zillion books, drinking a glass or three of wine and working into the early hours. This doesn't excuse the email, but it would offer some context...

Some of the emails I've seen from massive earning senior management team business execs are worse. Look at the statements Abhisit makes, some of his actions - a so-called educated man who says he believes in democracy...

Easy to find fault with us all, if you search for it. Again, it's a very bad email, so none of my words excuse the writer/sender.

Ofetn the truble with emales is they arr bein ritten quickily and wiv litle fought or efort becos the teechers av to rite a lot and thay do werk very ard.

I av red the artikle and to be onest I carnt see a lot wong wiv any of it.

sownds like peeple are splitin hares and takin the piss.

Those are spellink errors, and there are also a couple of crimes against punctuation in there. But as BBoo says, the teacher could've been under pressure by having to write so many reports, though this is no excuse because even a basic spell checker would've caught most of them.