Supervising our childrens' homework is part and parcel of family life, and while we might expect to notice errors on our child's part, very few of us would would expect to see a deluge of mistakes which originated with their teacher, right?
One mother, who found herself stunned by the sheer number of mistakes evident in a worksheet presented to her son's class, took to social media to highlight the issue with Twitter users.
Sharing a photo of her son's assigned homework with social media followers, stunned mum, Amanda, wrote: "My son has spellings from school that they want him to learn. I'm currently holding my head and sighing."
As evidenced in the photo, the teacher at the centre of the case not only issued incorrectly spelled versions of particular words, she also failed to recognise typos which were contained within the introductory paragraph to the assignment sheet.
In addition to misspelling both 'immediately' and 'sincerely', it appears the teacher accidentally wrote 'you' instead of 'your' and 'work' instead of 'week' in the exercise which was assigned to Year 6 students.
Clearly aghast by the lack of attention to detail, Twitter users voiced concern, with one writing: "Shocking, please tell me this isn't real" while another tweeted "This is appalling. There is no excuse."
In light of the controversy which her post generated, Amanda confirmed the validity of her post and outlined her plan for Twitter users, writing: "I will be, of course, going into the school and questioning why something so littered with errors was sent home."
While acknowledging that mistakes do occur, Amanda insisted that this particular issue necessitated discussion, writing: "I appreciate and value teachers but errors like that are just not on. Spellings being sent home that are incorrect is a big issue in my opinion."
Defending her decision to post an image of the worksheet online, she wrote: "If you think it's fake then that's your prerogative. But it's not. I haven't shamed anyone as I have mentioned no names, the teacher or the school and, obviously, wouldn't name them on social media either."
However, it appears Amanda's outrage may have been a little premature as she revealed soon after that she unearthed another version of the worksheet in her son's bag, and it appears the teacher had rectified the errors and distributed a new version to pupils.
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