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By leah_kascar - 22/08/2016 01:45 - United States - Hialeah

Today, in the class I'm teaching, I assigned my students an essay to complete for homework. One student asked me if I was deducting points for bad spelling. I teach English. FML
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Today, I got back the essay I wrote about how my country's education system is fucked. At one point, I made a spelling mistake. My teacher wrote a note about it, basically calling me illiterate, and telling me to pay attention in school instead of whining about it. She misspelled "school". FML
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RabbitOfAurora 28

I think that's a fair question depending on the class and what kind of teacher you are. Because if the point if the essay was say, structure. You might take the pressure off of them by forgiving a few spelling errors. I know I had teachers in high school that delayed whole exams by a week because the class as a collective didn't feel prepared and wanted more time to study.

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socialproduct 19

If it's a typed essay, there's really no excuse for spelling errors.

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mh_2323 13

To all the people saying it was a valid question: think about how easy it is to look up how to spell something now (just say the word to google, Siri, ex.) it shouldn't be that hard to not have any spelling errors.

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HawaiiThad 14

OP, you should reply, ”No, you will lose points for bad spelling." My point is that they earn (or fail to earn) points. You don't give them out.

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Lauren_percival 1

For someone like me this is a typical question and one that shouldn't be laughed at I'm dyslexic and I've never been able to spell properly even in primary school id get into trouble for spelling wrong and it's very embarrassing so don't laugh or be mean to anyone who doesn't know how to spell

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DoomedGemini 37

If you have a condition that makes it hard to spell that's one thing, but the teacher should be aware of something like that. People with no conditions are expected to know spelling and if they don't they need to learn.

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Arania79 3

Sadly, not all schools will accept this. I have been lucky in getting my son the help he needs with his dyslexia, but not all schools are as helpful about it. Teachers are not taught about this during their training unless they are specifically going into special education or have dealt with it in the past.

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Lalala579121 27

Dyslexia doesn't prevent you from using punctuation, does it?

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bryanna8180 7

Your a teacher... you are supposed to take any students question or concerns considerately

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Jonkbaby 22

it pains me that the FML comment section is trying to pretend like we're all grammar nazis all of the sudden.

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zaidthunder1 27

Not all essays test spelling since they can be used to test sentence structuring, and paragraph cohesion. I think your student has a valid point.

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mounya 19

I've had plenty of English teachers that have said they won't deduct points for spelling errors because all they care about is structure and organization. I think the student's question was entirely reasonable but that's just from my own experience. It's evidently not the same for everyone else.

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Lalala579121 27

I could maybe see that in a creative writing or English lit class. But if it's at the point where you know you can't spell and have to ask the teacher... Maybe it's time to get a tutor or something.

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