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[phantym_56]

Alarming conversation of the day:

(between myself and my mother, a teacher who is writing her end of year reports)

Mother: You know if you have a name? Like John?
Me: Yes...
Mother: If you were saying "John's reading", is there an apostrophe?
Me (disbelieving): Yes...
Mother: Where?
Me:... are you serious? Do you actually not know this?
Mother: The

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[chamekke]

:-(

[kickair8p]

Teacher of what? It used to be that we routinely remembered phone numbers, but most of us don't any more because our cellphones do it for us. I don't have my address memorized, and I've lived here for five years -- all my bills are online. But I remember my screen-names and passwords, because I don't let the 'puter do that for me.

It's easy to say "But she should know, it's her job!" Nonetheless, we're human -- outside of stuff that has emotional impact we don't easily remember what we don't routinely use.

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[phantym_56]

Year Three - 7/8 year-olds. They can already write (mostly; there are always exceptions) and they're supposed to be learning, with her, simple grammar and punctuation - "it's" "that's" "John's" etc. So in this case, yes, I think it's not unreasonable to expect her to know it. But I agree that there are plenty of things I wouldn't necessarily expect her or other people to know.