The English language, we all know, is in decline. The average schoolchild can hardly write, one author has recently warned. Well, not that recently perhaps
Misspellings on documents that come from a school drive me absolutely insane. (I’d say literally, but I don’t literally mean that, ha ha.) And yes, I would correct the teacher / school, even though it’s obnoxious to do so. They needed to know that they couldn’t get away with that kind of sloppiness.
My son and I used to correct the grammar and spelling on the notices that came from his middle school principal. It was fun. (We’re the sort of people who consider this kind of thing fun.)
I mailed a few of the corrected notices to the school anonymously.
I used to correct the spelling and grammar of notes that my teacher sent home in 5th grade. I then gave them back to her. She requested a conference with my parents and requested that I stop doing that. They requested she not send home poorly written notes.
It’s really a wonder I lasted as long in my first school as I did…
Careless spelling errores drive me nuts. It just looks incerdibly unprofessional in any context.
My youngest child is in sixth grade. I take pictures of all the grammar mistakes and misspellings that are on the teacher made papers. My favorite this month is “burry” for bury. My daughter’s second grade teacher ended every sentence with an exclamation point. Drove me nuts. Seriously, I would see things like “Will your child ride the bus home? Circle one! Yes / No” Really? I felt like I needed to get excited about circling no.
Edit: I left out my favorite. It was during a dual enrollment French class that was taught at school by the regular French teacher (before my daughter transferred to a private). In introducing a lesson on adverbs, the teacher said, “This should come natural to you.” You just can’t make stuff like that up.
“Three strikes, your out” on the wall the first day we walked into the FIFTH grade room - and this was the English teacher. It remained there even after it was pointed out by parents. I was shaking the night I read “I would of liked more color in your project” on the teacher’s grading sheet. Well, I would have liked an English teacher who knew the difference between OF and HAVE, but we don’t always get what we want, do we?
OK - I teach 2nd grade where most children misspell 1/2 of their words - usually the words are phonetically correct (ex. wen = when; wat = what, etc). Reading these words all day, every day, year after year starts to reprogram the brain and I find I misspell words frequently the older I get. So please have mercy on early childhood teachers and their old branes. 
Nope, sorry. It’s not funny. The examples cited in the posts above are pathetic and the teachers should be ashamed of themselves. All it does is reinforce the stereotypes about education majors.
The point of the article is that language evolves. When enough people say "would of " instead of “would have” for long enough, the “correct” form will change. People do not clearly articulate the “have” in daily speech, but instead contract it to “would’ve”, which sounds like “of.” That is exactly how it seems to happen: speech patterns change and then make their way into written language, at least among the unwashed masses.
The teacher above who confessed to being influenced by constant exposure to the language patterns of her students is describing a similar process, accelerated by her unusual amount of exposure through grading papers.
That said, and no offense to any teachers here. teaching used to be considered a truly honorable profession and drew top talent. Countries that offer top educations have top level teachers who are drawn to the profession partly because it is so well respected. Students in the US who major in education (I have read) are often not the most talented academically.
When America decides that educating our young is important work and offers both the pay and the respect commensurate with the responsibility, we will get more teachers who can spell Perhaps teaching should have the same rigorous requirements for entrance as, say, medicine, finance, engineering or law.
My son’s high school had an “Honor Role” assembly every marking period. I can’t remember how many times I had to complain to the principal before it was corrected. Culture of Excellence my a$$!
^^^^Yep, on the large outside sign board leading to the high school, the sign alluded to the Honor Role breakfast…
I heard the middle school principal make an announcement stating that we “need to be cognitive of the situation.” 
My husband and I went to an open house at a private middle school nearby. Not only were things on the board spelled wrong, but as they presented addition material the teachers would add things to the board, also misspelled. At first we were just trying not to laugh out loud, but then we just couldn’t wait to get out of there. Let’s just say that they never received an application from our daughter…
The article referenced is worth reading. The appalling spelling of educators…
btw- I wish CC had spell check instead of just pointing out misspellings.
My son is a gifted speller (also otherwise gifted, being able to spell words is not as useful as being able to use them) whose grade 1-3 (combined class) teacher once told me she would ask him for correct spellings sometimes! She had to go beyond the normal spelling lists for him- we went through the 8th grade then the HS lists of (100? 200?) commonly misspelled words. Kudos to a teacher who could adapt to a gifted kid (we chose her and he had her for two years, at first she couldn’t understand how he could be bored and we let him be tested for ADD). Teachers are only human and prone to the same problems of those of us who chose other professions. They have a skill set most of us don’t- the ability to keep the interest of and expand the skills of the wide ability range of the young. I couldn’t handle that job. I suppose some have the irritating cutesy habit of ! and circles instead of dots above the letter i- in some ways they need to think like children instead of being serious adults.
I’m sure this idea has been mentioned before, but texting probably has something to do with the decline. it especially affects punctuation and grammar.
I actually read a book, Txtng: The Gr8 Db8, by a linguist who analyzed that theory. In summary, his findings were (from the Wiki article):
I was in 5th grade long before texting 
Also, as someone who works with historical documents, I have to second that abbreviations are absolutely nothing new.
At least we don’t use abbreviations for names now
“Typically, less than 10% of the words are abbreviated in text messages.”
I’d be more impressed if his study showed “fewer than 10% of the words,” not less than. If one is going to criticize…
That was quoted from Wikipedia article about the book, not taken from it directly.
Does anyone ever get tired of being grammatically correct and using correct spellings? Someday I’m going to just be lazy… CC is not your classroom to be graded paper- although things are evaluated in the court of public opinion here. Perfectionistic habits take a long time to overcome. What freedom to not conform.