Poor Spelling & Grammar By Primary & High School Teachers
Cited By The Federal Minister Of Education
Mr. B Nelson The Sunday Mail, 25/9/05
A grade two teacher who spelt nose as noes.
A student who wrote "would of" being corrected with "would off" instead of "would have".
A teacher who failed to correct the spelling of lor (law), por (paw) and orght (ought).
A year seven class given a spelling list with parliament spelt parliment.
A teacher who changed "marshal arts" in a student's essay to "marshall arts" instead of "martial arts".
A student not being corrected when beginning an essay reading with "I would like to read a story I writ"
A mother who counted 19 uncorrected spelling and grammatical errors in her year 8 daughter's essay, including Australien (Australian) and torrists (tourists).
A teacher who said two younger colleagues asked if 'coming' was spelt comeing and 'runs' spelt runes.