Finished grading papers the other day about the Constitutions

[ashling]

of US & Texas for my Am Govt. class.

These people can't spell.

One wrote that Texas has a "pleural executive." My comment to her: "Either Rick Perry has Tuburculosis, or this is misspelled - either way, its incorrect," The hilarity never ceases.

My daughter put this comic strip on FB the other day:


I think this guy may be in my class.

[hlthe2b]

1. Ahh, the scourge of "spell-check"

No one ever looks words up anymore, since if "spell-check" doesn't flag it, it must be correct, right? ;)

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I call them correctly spelled mispelled words

:-)

And I have a few I do myself... sit, vs seat... hence Word now looks for those when I go though the damn thing...

[ashling]

3. One student's view of concerns about computer vote hacking:

"There's always somebody who wants to start havic."
I wonder how that got past spell check

Sometimes I don't know weather to :rofl: or :cry: just in case, that was :sarcasm:

[hlthe2b]

4. Actually, I was originally afraid to click on your thread...

to see what horrendous misunderstandings might be out there in terms of the content and meaning of the constitution. Misspellings are at least entertaining (and amenable to correction)...;)

[Obamanaut]

7. With the "Tuburculosis" in the OP, I can't tell if "weather" was sarcasm. nt

[ashling]

12. Duly noted

and chastised.

[Confusious]

10. Cry havic, and unless the dogs of war! nt

Parts misspelled for effect.

[ashling]

13. Shouldn't your screename be

Confuseus :shrug:

[provis99]

5. ah dude...you spelled "Tuberculosis" wrong.

It's not a good idea to heckle someone's spelling by getting it wrong yourself.

[oldlib]

6. Although I try to spell correctly

I feel, that if you recognize that a word is spelled incorrectly, you recognize the word, and that is the point; Communication.

[KurtNYC]

8. I would overlook spelling if they are demonstrating some understanding

of the concepts.

[Zanzobar]

9. I would avoid sarcasm when correcting papers

Poor students don't need teachers heckling them, they need correction.

Reproach of that sort is inappropriate. It was a gratuitous slap, and in very bad form.

A simple, "Please double check your spelling!", would have been an appropriate comment.

In the future, you may want to consider that as a teacher you are held to a higher standard.

[Javaman]

11. Pearls Before Swine is pure genius. nt