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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/poor-marks-for-teachers-email.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A school has been criticised after a teacher's email to a pupil's parents contained spelling and grammatical errors" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-poor-marks-for-teachers-email.jpg" alt="A school has been criticised after a teacher's email to a pupil's parents contained spelling and grammatical errors"/></a></p>
<p>A school has been criticised after one of its teachers sent an email to a pupil&#8217;s parents containing 14 spelling and grammatical errors.</p>
<p>The message was sent from a form tutor at Gleed Girls&#8217; Technology College in Spalding, Lincolnshire, after the teacher was unable to meet with one pupil&#8217;s parents at a parents&#8217; evening.</p>
<p>It contained errors such as &#8220;role modal&#8221; and &#8220;attenance&#8221;, as well as a number of misplaced apostrophes.</p>
<p>Marie Clair, spokeswoman for the Plain English Campaign, said she thought the email was an &#8220;extreme case&#8221; of bad use of language and also highlighted the importance of considering how we communicate.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;On a personal basis, I&#8217;m not impressed and I am sure that the parents of that pupil are not impressed either.</p>
<p>&#8220;But if we stand back from it a little bit and think why that is happening, there&#8217;s all sorts of reasons that could be responsible.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some of the errors made by the unnamed teacher such as &#8220;requriements&#8221; and &#8220;everning&#8221; appear to be typing mistakes, while others such as &#8220;boardering&#8221; and &#8220;occaisions&#8221; could be genuine spelling errors.</p>
<p>The message was revealed by the pupil&#8217;s mother, who has not been named, because she said she was concerned about the teacher&#8217;s ability, and it came just days after Education Secretary Michael Gove called for more emphasis to be placed on good spelling and grammar.</p>
<p>But Ms Clair said the email could be indicative of the high-pressured occupations many people find themselves in and did not necessarily mean the teacher was not good at their job.</p>
<p>She said: &#8220;All of us live in a really fast moving world and what we need to do is think before we communicate. We&#8217;re responding to things all the time and we don&#8217;t think enough about thinking things out and getting the process straight. It gives us all the opportunity to understand how easily things can be exposed. Whether it&#8217;s a text, an email or a WikiLeak, what you say can be out there in seconds.&#8221;</p>
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