No wonder my kid was confused...LOL

Tonight my daughter said, "I don't understand these instructions. They're so confusing."

"Let me have a look," I said. These were the instructions tonight for her spelling homework, word for word:

"Use ten spelling words in a sentence that needs an apostrophe at least six words long. Remember, only one word may be used in each sentence."

She said that when she told her teacher that she was confused he said, "You must not have read the instructions!"

Poor kid.

 

So, the sentence has to contain all ten words with an apostrophe that is 6 words long?!?! jk....


Jesus, that took like 4 readings to actually figure it out. How the hell is a child supposed to understand it?

That teacher needs to brush up on his grammar skills!

 

That's just SAD.

For an example of why things are like that, read this:
http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2233685&postcount=9

Oh, btw, I'm a teacher too. (geek stuff at the university.)

 

Ok, even I had to read that several times and I'm still not sure that I get it. Poor baby.

 

If she could get a masters degree using that kind of dreadful grammar and lack of clarity, I should be able to sleep through class and be an A student.

Hmm... That's not exactly comforting to the youth of America, is it?

 

My thoughts exactly
I'm a British undergraduate and am floundering, so how the hell he thinks a little kid is supposed to make sense of that I've no idea.

Well good luck that

 

Write that teacher a letter, and send his principal a copy, too. Include photocopies of those instructions (keep the original to CYA). Tell them that it is inexcusable to dismiss your child's confusion, given the poor wording of the instructions. And then just go off on the state of education, and vent all your frustrations with public schools out on them.

 

I know. I'm a little worried about him. This is the same teacher who passed out another class's photos to the kids in his class. (You know, from picture day?) When the students and their parents recognized the other kids and said, "Mister, these aren't our pictures, these are kids in Mrs. So-and-so's class," he still wouldn't admit he made a mistake.

So...maybe he needs to see a doctor or take a little vacation. Seriously.

 

I think you're on to something.

 

No kidding! You're going to sail through school!

I should have gone into the classroom this morning just to smell his breath and make sure he's sober.

 

I know! This could be a good opportunity to vent and feel better.

If you read the thread called Teachers that's active right now, this is the same teacher who asked me what is wrong with my parents because they named me Govinda. (I hate my name, but that's none of his business. It was still unprofessional of him.) Then he acted shocked when I told him that, yes, they did go to college and they do have jobs.

So, he's really disrespectful and acts like he's a lot better than we are. He's the same guy who tries to demand that none of the kids watch TV at home and 'fines' those that do. He boasts in letters home that his kids both got PhDs because they never watched any television. I bet they could tell him what's wrong with those instructions. LOL

 

Part of the goverment plan keep them dumb and feed them MTV AND rap music & videos.

 

I swear I'm not lying.
The lady that handles attendance at my kids' school just called me. She asked me why my daughter was absent on February 20th. I told her that that was Presidents' Day and there was no school on that day. She said, "Oh, that's right. Sorry." and hung up.

Two days ago the same lady called me in the middle of the day and asked me why my kids weren't in school. "They are in school," I said. She said they were marked absent. The after school program at this school lost my daughter twice before, so I said, "Are you saying that you've lost my kids again? I dropped them off this morning and I saw them go to class. Have they disappered?"

They hadn't.

OMG.

What is wrong with these people?

 

i`m not stupid,i`m not stupid...i can undurstand that...can i?...i cant!Shit,i really cant...:&
oh fuck it,thats maths...
yeah,i`m stupid

 

If you can understand it there's something wrong with you.

I'm going to start a band called the Dangling Modifiers and those instructions are going to be one of our songs.

 

i understood it. it's stupidly written, but i understood it.

 

That just infuriates me, when teaching someone to use the english language! One should use it themselves!

 

ROFLOL!!! I do that to the homeschool packets they send us! The homeschool liason is a dear to work with, but can't form a proper sentence to save her life. I'm comma-happy, but she takes the cake.

love,
mom

 

if the teacher of the class wrote that then i think your daughter is more qualified to be teaching that class.