I still have trouble saying no, even when I sometimes know I should!

Nice to see you the other day, hope you’re busy

When I was at school, I think I was 15, and we had just returned from the summer holidays. We had a new geography teacher who, in his first lesson with us, made 5 spelling mistakes on the board, to which I corrected every one. I was then sent to our head of year for being disruptive. I explained the reason to the head and was told it wasn’t my place to correct teachers and spelling doesn’t matter considering it was a geography lesson and not English.

What does this say to a parent who is sending their child to school to learn? If I was sending my son to a school where the teachers cannot even spell, and the students get penalised for spelling correctly, I think I would seriously consider sending him to another school.

There is someone I know who works with children at a primary school. She is very intelligent yet continues to abuse the English language via Facebook on a daily basis. Here are a few examples:

“Even betta cause am not workin al wkend” “Cen my lil niece this aft, guna b a lil beauty” “lukin at tattoos, dare i av 1 dun?” (this is doubly stupid considering she is pregnant, but that’s a rant for another day)

I have never understood why people continue to write like this, I personally have to really think of how I would shorten certain words, so I find it much quicker to type the real thing.

I’ll leave it at this anyway as my response will end up as long as the article.