My 6 year old daughter won an award for hard work, determination, and a positive caring attitude in school 😀

She presented us with the certificate after the award ceremony and I was disgusted to see that the head can’t even spell. Attitude was spelt attitute.

Should I raise this with the school and get them to redo the certificate? Really appalled that the head or his minion can’t even spell a simple word.

Or should I donate a word processed with spell checking?

What is “a word processed with spell checking”

Pan, kettle, black.

We all make mistakes. Keep it and lighten up would be my chosen option (take a “positive and caring” approach) 😉

Could be a simple typo- like “processed” rather than processor? 😉

That’s what you get when typing on a iPad and not checking your auto corrected words. Damn technology. I’ll shut up now.

Now where did I put my coat. 🙂

People should be able to proof read their own text without resorting to spell checkers.

I suppose the answer is to politely point out the error as you now know how easy it is to make one 😉

Pffft, I think you should be having a word with the daughter personally, it’s sports awards or nothing in this household! Goody two shoes 😉

determination, and

Tut-tut; B minus. 😉

Our local council advertised a load of ‘Deputy Head’ jobs recently, except (on their own website) they said ‘Depute Head’…

attitude in school

C-

Just correct it in red pen like teachers do and send it back to them with a little note telling them something along the lines of ‘must try harder’

Just correct it in red pen like teachers do and send it back to them with a little note telling them something along the lines of ‘must try harder’

Plus 1

Use a colour photocopy or similar, I think they’d see the funny side.

I read somewhere that commas and ‘and’ can go together in ‘modern’ written english but not in the case above.

My 8 year old son wrote: “they road the boat across the lake”, and his teacher corrected “road” to “rode”! That’s one of several spelling mistakes she’s written in his literacy book!

I read somewhere that commas and ‘and’ can go together in ‘modern’ written english but not in the case above.

Ah, the Oxford Comma. I always use it.

My 8 year old son wrote: “they road the boat across the lake”, and his teacher corrected “road” to “rode”! That’s one of several spelling mistakes she’s written in his literacy book!

Depends – if it was a ferry or something, then they rode it. If it was a rowboat, they rowed it.

@bencooper- fair point except that the sentence was illustrating 2 people rowing a little boat!

Ah 😉