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The way English teachers are trained now tends to leave out some of the fundamentals. And because there is such a lack of available teachers in this area, the standards are being lowered.

In the school system where I live, the English teachers do not understand proper grammar, spelling and word usage. I was trained differently in an earlier decade without spell check.

I had to seriously edit research papers before my kids turned them in. Their teachers didn't catch or correct the word usage or grammar errors.

I also have to agree with not reacting disrespectfully to any teachers and to kindly be careful and tactful when privately correcting them. They do have considerable power over your future in spite of any flaws.

I feel your pain.

In my school, which supposedly has higher standards because of its name and because of being a private school. I'm in High 1, and the year before, my teachers kept on nagging us about high school having higher standards. If it's like that, shouldn't it be the same way with the teachers?

I was shocked at my English teacher, who not only mutiliated the language with her grossly erroneous pronounciation (eg. verb and verbs='verf' and 'verves'), but also with her bad grammar and hypocrisy. No words can describe the feeling I have whenever English is the next subject.

She corrects us whenever we make mistakes, but doesn't mind it when she makes mistakes. When your being the example, you can't make so many mistakes and teach others to do so as well. I know that everyone makes mistakes, and I don't mind it when a teacher makes the occasional error. But she's already made countless of mistakes on the blackboard and already lost the respect of my class.

This was a recent one she made:


It's so sad, really.