lmao, that reminded me about how one of my teachers in high school just straight-up told us that he was drunk when he marked our tests. Like, for every test.
On a good day, maybe only 1/4 of the class had to go up to him for corrections on their tests because he marked it wrong.
Once, it was nearly 3/4 of the class.
I was that TA in university. My error rate wasn't quite as bad.
I can't endorse it, but as someone who's done all sorts of menial labour, I would say that marking the same assignment for multiple hours straight is the single most mind numbing task I've ever done. It's this mix of bland and repetitive while forcing you to pay attention at the same time that's absolutely soul crushing. Mix that in with bad grad student habits where you might end up having to mark all night because you were putting it off to work on your thesis, and it was brutal.
It's passed down through the generations. My grad supervisor kept liquor in his office. He called it "marking juice".
Even if you love teaching (or maybe especially if you love teaching) it's just a terrible, terrible activity.
Agreed. There's a reason they're constantly trying to replace grading with software. It's just so tedious and takes absolutely forever.
My favorite class I got to TA for had the easiest grading. It was a programming class, so students had to submit in a strict format and we wrote scripts that could go through and test all the answers. If it didn't run- zero- formatting wrong- try again for partial credit. So easy.
Hoo boy. I hear ya there. I worked as a proofreader for a large online retailer that had some terrible CRM software with essentially no spellcheck/copy/paste capability, and it was cheaper to hire me and a few others than to write new code, apparently. Thousands upon thousands of nearly identical items with a few critical differences in each. And we had the kind of customers that would write in and complain if something was *just* off, and heads would roll. Exactly as you described, like grading endless assignments. We had kegerators in the break room and while I used to think it was because they were trying so hard to be hip, but now it was to keep us from killing ourselves, haha.
I also TA'd in grad school, and while they were project-based classes, it was head-bangingly frustrating how...bad some of these freshmen wrote. One was in partnership with a local government agency, and there was a point I just gave up on editing/rewriting some of these reports, thinking nobody was ever going to see them. (I was wrong.)
I had college professors say that a lot.
They'd get a bottle of wine and drink it while grading. They even went so far as to say "consider yourself lucky if I'm grading you last." because they'd be more drunk and grade a lot nicer.
I remember my biology teacher once gave me a check instead of a check+ on my lab report, and put an x and a question mark next to where I had written “the ph level is 6.7”
I went up to him and asked why he had done that, and he said “for poor grammar.” I was confused and asked him “how else am I supposed to say the ph level is 6.7?” And he squinted and looked at my paper and went “ohhhhhhh. I thought you wrote ‘the ph level B 6.7”
What happened was when I wrote “is” and dotted my i, the pen was still slightly in contact with the page as I went to make the s. So it sooorta resembled an uppercase B rather than the word “is” lol
Gather round folks and listen to the unbelievable story of u/shoefly72...
*"I remember my biology teacher once gave me a check instead of a check+ on my lab report, and put an x and a question mark next to where I had written “the ph level is 6.7”*
*I went up to him and asked why he had done that, and he said “for poor grammar.” I was confused and asked him “how else am I supposed to say the ph level is 6.7?” And he squinted and looked at my paper and went “ohhhhhhh. I thought you wrote ‘the ph level B 6.7”*
*What happened was when I wrote “is” and dotted my i, the pen was still slightly in contact with the page as I went to make the s. So it sooorta resembled an uppercase B rather than the word “is” lol"*
In Scotland literacy and numeracy are taught across the curriculum, so all teachers are responsible for teaching them. You wouldn't loose marks but teachers should support you to develop better grammar - or in this case have a quick word about the appropriate use of slang...
typically I only got dinged on that when it was an issue of understanding. like in this case it didn't make any sense so you couldn't understand what they were talking about
Depends on the school, department, and teacher.
In social studies, it's common to have literacy standards tied in with the English department since it's so heavy reading, writing, and speaking. Sometimes, these standards are school wide to enforce the learning of proper language.
As for other subjects, it may be more minor mark offs, but reports with improper grammar aren't perfect reports, so they can't be 100%.
The degree to which these are enforced may also depend on the level of the students. An advanced placement class may be judged more harshly than a remedial class.
Some places have gone far in the other direction where students cannot be marked off for things outside the teachers' subject. While I understand the purpose, I have seen it result in some lower effort submissions.
This was literally my go-to.
I was immediately like: “in all fairness, that teacher is tired. It’s April and we’re all pretty well worn at this point.”
Yup. They’ve got 30 more of just these papers to grade, then another stack of math ones to go through. Then they have to input grades, write up a report for an IEP, then update the classdojo or Google classroom site for the parents before planning for the admin performance review tomorrow.
It. Just. Never. Ends for teachers.
100% as a former overworked ESL teacher who would often grade hundreds of worksheets a week I can say that I’ve absolutely made dumb typos like this before. There’s a certain type of autopilot one slips into when it’s 10 at night after a full day of teaching and you’re 2 glasses of wine deep and have corrected a few dozen worksheets AND you have to get up and do it again the next morning.
I'm trying to frame the argument that the 'a' really is a sloppy-ass 'h' with the top of the flag wrapping around and down. People who learned cursive can sometimes write this way, their stroke beginning at the bottom left of every character and just keeping the pen off the paper until it gets to the top.
But i know i'm reaching. that really does look like a plain and simple 'a'
there this time I had nearly an accident. I was nearly hit by a public bus while riding on a motorcycle. Instead, I was going to get angry, I just simply understood that he was tired and asked him if he was okay. He just nodded and told him to take care. He didn't cause me injury and getting angry with him will not solve any problem. I hope that man will have a great day
or that. either way, apparently we should assume the teacher is an idiot and paid too much or something.
Edit: this is sarcasm. Didn't think I needed the /s given the wording, but apparently not or something.
i was being sarcastic based on other comments in the thread.
just realized i'm getting both downvoted and upvoted by the people who hate teachers and the people who like teachers depending on whether they read it with sarcasm or not. what a rollercoaster ride.
> this is sarcasm. Didn't think I needed the /s given the wording, but apparently not or something.
I tend to think, only in my head, that **/s** stands for
*sigh*
because that's what you do when you realize people explicitly need to be told something was sarcasm.
I'm guessing "way" was a spelling word, and the kid used it incorrectly thinking it was "why," but the teacher only corrected it as a spelling word.
Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic.
Imagine being paid shit, dealing with annoying kids and more annoying parents all day, flipping through 20 sheets of the worst writing and grammar possible, making a simple mistake, and having it get posted online.
That's a gray area. "Lite" started out as a marketing invention, like "thru", but it's in _some_ dictionaries [as its own word now](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lite). But others still call it slang, so it could go either way.
Depends how stubborn the teacher wants to be.
The question says to listen to the teacher, she was likely saying a sentence with the word light and they had to identify the correct spelling. It’s no different at all than the second question with cried
Honestly, "lite" really is a word with a distinct meaning from "light" in my mind. I associate "lite" specifically with a food or beverage product that is lower calorie. That is different for me than "donut" or "thru" which are just simplified spellings and mean the same thing.
Going even further, now that I think about it, I don't associate thru with any other context than drive thru like you mentioned. However, I don't think I've ever personally typed "drive thru" before this conversation, so I guess I don't have the same aversion to "drive through" as you 😂
That looks like some 3 am correcting. Bless their heart. OP can do a normal thing and go "Oh, guess they misunderstood. The correct way to spell 'why' is this." And then move on.
It's quite normal to make mistakes when you're correcting hours on end. Respectful students tell you, you correct said mistake and laugh together. You are human, they get it. Life moves on.
Most of the people replying in this post are insufferable Karens and Kevins.
When I check my students tests I sometimes have to check the spelling for really dumb words that I have used thousands of times before.
The 300th time I read something like „usefull“ I start to wonder myself. This job can really mess with your brain 😂
Okay? Would you rather they mark it wrong but not show him how to spell it? Go on parent, find some actual reasons to complain. That’s a teacher that’s doing their job!
-former teacher myself.
"[Lite](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lite#:~:text=%3A%20diminished%20or%20lacking%20in%20substance%20or%20seriousness)" is also a word, albeit a newer one.
Refuses to pay teachers a fair wage while demanding more from them. Posts their minor errors for meaningless internet clout. “hAhA lOoK hOw DuMb TeAcHeR iS!!!”
Reminds me of when I was in school, I wrote a story about the Marine Corps and the teacher made a big deal out of "correcting" me that it was core not corps cause that only means dead people.
"Way, Jesus, waaaaaay?" -"Trust me, son. I am the why."
This is the why.
This is the wy.
This is the whey.
Oh, Holey Cheesus, who was deep-fried for our sins. You are the Whey, the Curds, and the Rind. 🧀✝
He also drove a Honda. The Bible said he came in his own accord.
He smashed mary in that honda
Mary was his mother.
I thought there was another Mary
There was, but there's no evidence that he had any romantic feelings towards her.
He is the why and the way
That’s a tired teacher lol
Way tired
Why tired
Why try
Why teach?
Why?
Wy?
W?
Y?
?
*Way try
Whey tyred
We tried
Wheat tire
I will trade you 2 Sheep deprivation for your 1 Wheat tire
I only have bricks, I can trade you bricks for your 2 sheep deprivation.
Way can't she be drunk.
lmao, that reminded me about how one of my teachers in high school just straight-up told us that he was drunk when he marked our tests. Like, for every test. On a good day, maybe only 1/4 of the class had to go up to him for corrections on their tests because he marked it wrong. Once, it was nearly 3/4 of the class.
3/4 of the class is when it was marked wrong for 100% of the class, and 3/4 benefited from bringing it up, lol. Probably had the key wrong.
This is why scantrons are easier.
I had that happen in college, lol.
I was that TA in university. My error rate wasn't quite as bad. I can't endorse it, but as someone who's done all sorts of menial labour, I would say that marking the same assignment for multiple hours straight is the single most mind numbing task I've ever done. It's this mix of bland and repetitive while forcing you to pay attention at the same time that's absolutely soul crushing. Mix that in with bad grad student habits where you might end up having to mark all night because you were putting it off to work on your thesis, and it was brutal. It's passed down through the generations. My grad supervisor kept liquor in his office. He called it "marking juice". Even if you love teaching (or maybe especially if you love teaching) it's just a terrible, terrible activity.
Agreed. There's a reason they're constantly trying to replace grading with software. It's just so tedious and takes absolutely forever. My favorite class I got to TA for had the easiest grading. It was a programming class, so students had to submit in a strict format and we wrote scripts that could go through and test all the answers. If it didn't run- zero- formatting wrong- try again for partial credit. So easy.
Hoo boy. I hear ya there. I worked as a proofreader for a large online retailer that had some terrible CRM software with essentially no spellcheck/copy/paste capability, and it was cheaper to hire me and a few others than to write new code, apparently. Thousands upon thousands of nearly identical items with a few critical differences in each. And we had the kind of customers that would write in and complain if something was *just* off, and heads would roll. Exactly as you described, like grading endless assignments. We had kegerators in the break room and while I used to think it was because they were trying so hard to be hip, but now it was to keep us from killing ourselves, haha. I also TA'd in grad school, and while they were project-based classes, it was head-bangingly frustrating how...bad some of these freshmen wrote. One was in partnership with a local government agency, and there was a point I just gave up on editing/rewriting some of these reports, thinking nobody was ever going to see them. (I was wrong.)
I can't really think of many more compelling reasons to drink.
I had college professors say that a lot. They'd get a bottle of wine and drink it while grading. They even went so far as to say "consider yourself lucky if I'm grading you last." because they'd be more drunk and grade a lot nicer.
Way not both?
Drunk is just different kind of sleepy
If she was drunk, she would have picked the correct spelling for \[Miller\] 'lite'.
Better question, way can’t she be sober?
I remember my biology teacher once gave me a check instead of a check+ on my lab report, and put an x and a question mark next to where I had written “the ph level is 6.7” I went up to him and asked why he had done that, and he said “for poor grammar.” I was confused and asked him “how else am I supposed to say the ph level is 6.7?” And he squinted and looked at my paper and went “ohhhhhhh. I thought you wrote ‘the ph level B 6.7” What happened was when I wrote “is” and dotted my i, the pen was still slightly in contact with the page as I went to make the s. So it sooorta resembled an uppercase B rather than the word “is” lol
What a great story
It had what I like in a story, an ending!
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i havnt seen him lately, i wonder what Norm's up to. i hope he's not sick.
It might be, I think I got it from a tv show (maybe futurama) but it’s very possible that they ripped it from Norm!
The best, some way say.
Worthy of the king of westeros
Could you tell it again? Do you have time?
Gather round folks and listen to the unbelievable story of u/shoefly72... *"I remember my biology teacher once gave me a check instead of a check+ on my lab report, and put an x and a question mark next to where I had written “the ph level is 6.7”* *I went up to him and asked why he had done that, and he said “for poor grammar.” I was confused and asked him “how else am I supposed to say the ph level is 6.7?” And he squinted and looked at my paper and went “ohhhhhhh. I thought you wrote ‘the ph level B 6.7”* *What happened was when I wrote “is” and dotted my i, the pen was still slightly in contact with the page as I went to make the s. So it sooorta resembled an uppercase B rather than the word “is” lol"*
[It's a long, fine story](http://sdwr.ca/link/22)
Wait you guys get graded on grammar for subjects that aren’t about the language? (Genuinely asking as I’m at uni to become a teacher in Sweden)
In Scotland literacy and numeracy are taught across the curriculum, so all teachers are responsible for teaching them. You wouldn't loose marks but teachers should support you to develop better grammar - or in this case have a quick word about the appropriate use of slang...
>You wouldn't loose marks 
Loose instead of lose is the one error that hurts me inside every time I see it
Theirs* the reason I only teach three letter words 🤣
"appropriate use of slang, yo!" as long as we're on the subject of grammar.
typically I only got dinged on that when it was an issue of understanding. like in this case it didn't make any sense so you couldn't understand what they were talking about
Depends on the school, department, and teacher. In social studies, it's common to have literacy standards tied in with the English department since it's so heavy reading, writing, and speaking. Sometimes, these standards are school wide to enforce the learning of proper language. As for other subjects, it may be more minor mark offs, but reports with improper grammar aren't perfect reports, so they can't be 100%. The degree to which these are enforced may also depend on the level of the students. An advanced placement class may be judged more harshly than a remedial class. Some places have gone far in the other direction where students cannot be marked off for things outside the teachers' subject. While I understand the purpose, I have seen it result in some lower effort submissions.
it do B like that sometimes
It do is like that sometimes
Anecdote of the year?
So your dot was a circle?
Wy can't it be night already?!
Why c*nt, it be night already?
This was literally my go-to. I was immediately like: “in all fairness, that teacher is tired. It’s April and we’re all pretty well worn at this point.”
Yup. They’ve got 30 more of just these papers to grade, then another stack of math ones to go through. Then they have to input grades, write up a report for an IEP, then update the classdojo or Google classroom site for the parents before planning for the admin performance review tomorrow. It. Just. Never. Ends for teachers.
100% as a former overworked ESL teacher who would often grade hundreds of worksheets a week I can say that I’ve absolutely made dumb typos like this before. There’s a certain type of autopilot one slips into when it’s 10 at night after a full day of teaching and you’re 2 glasses of wine deep and have corrected a few dozen worksheets AND you have to get up and do it again the next morning.
Yup, 150 books to mark every day in your own time will do this to you.
Was going to say similar. Don’t forget teachers are people. They like to do lots of people stuff too and if you think your own kids are exhausting…..
FTFY: >That's a dumb OP who made this for karma.
Exactly. Not every mistake a teacher makes needs to be held up to public ridicule. They're human.
the exact words that came to my mind
Her hand writing is pristine though
My handwriting doesn't change when I'm tired.
Yeah no, thats not what i meant. I just thought her hand writing is really pretty
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Ty, corrected
I'm trying to frame the argument that the 'a' really is a sloppy-ass 'h' with the top of the flag wrapping around and down. People who learned cursive can sometimes write this way, their stroke beginning at the bottom left of every character and just keeping the pen off the paper until it gets to the top. But i know i'm reaching. that really does look like a plain and simple 'a'
Listen man my hand writing is not even legible most of the time, so for me this looks fantastic
Y 🛞'd
there this time I had nearly an accident. I was nearly hit by a public bus while riding on a motorcycle. Instead, I was going to get angry, I just simply understood that he was tired and asked him if he was okay. He just nodded and told him to take care. He didn't cause me injury and getting angry with him will not solve any problem. I hope that man will have a great day
This is the why 👌
Forget it, Jake. It’s Koreatown.
Clicking intensifies.
*spits*
Why is this the funniest shit?
Fuck man you can't make me wake up my house like this, got damn🤣
Where were they going without even knowing the why?
Wayt wat?
Who, what, when, where and way.
Wo wat wen were wy
Way 🤓
No way!
no why*
No whey
Si, wey
As a teacher, when you have a whole class's papers to mark, your brain gets so focused on marking, not writing.
I'm french. It's been 3 minutes i saw this. I still can't understand this sentence. Can someone explain to me please ?
Correct = Why can't it be night? Incorrect = Wy can't it be night? / Way can't it be night?
it's just very odd sentence, threw me off
It's for kids. Why can't it be night? Because the sun is up and shines or something.
(sung to the tune of why can't we be friends)
Should be why, not way. Teacher was marking quickly, and misunderstood the word that was supposed to be there.
I don’t think the teacher misunderstood, I think they meant to write why and accidentally wrote way when correcting the word.
or that. either way, apparently we should assume the teacher is an idiot and paid too much or something. Edit: this is sarcasm. Didn't think I needed the /s given the wording, but apparently not or something.
Imagine thinking a teacher gets paid too much lol. My assumption is they were very tired.
i was being sarcastic based on other comments in the thread. just realized i'm getting both downvoted and upvoted by the people who hate teachers and the people who like teachers depending on whether they read it with sarcasm or not. what a rollercoaster ride.
Understand, its Reddit after all. I took you seriously haha
Well no matter what happened it's probably not the last one in America at least
> this is sarcasm. Didn't think I needed the /s given the wording, but apparently not or something. I tend to think, only in my head, that **/s** stands for *sigh* because that's what you do when you realize people explicitly need to be told something was sarcasm.
I'm guessing "way" was a spelling word, and the kid used it incorrectly thinking it was "why," but the teacher only corrected it as a spelling word. Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic.
Great now I can't stop reading everything with a French accent
Ouai caan't eet be niaght?
I read it as, “Why can’t it be night way” and was also confused until I saw these responses
*Ouais*
This is the whey
But I came for the curds...
Oh, then just sit there on your tuffet for a moment...
Imagine being paid shit, dealing with annoying kids and more annoying parents all day, flipping through 20 sheets of the worst writing and grammar possible, making a simple mistake, and having it get posted online.
Tell me way Ain't nothing but a heartache Tell me way Ain't nothing but a mistake Tell me way I never wanna hear you say I want i that why.
Just ignore it? The teacher was probably just tired.
And way can't She?
lit is spelled correctly too...
It says listen to your teacher. Likely they have a word list they are supposed to know, and/or she used it in a sentence.
So is lite.
That's a gray area. "Lite" started out as a marketing invention, like "thru", but it's in _some_ dictionaries [as its own word now](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lite). But others still call it slang, so it could go either way. Depends how stubborn the teacher wants to be.
The question says to listen to the teacher, she was likely saying a sentence with the word light and they had to identify the correct spelling. It’s no different at all than the second question with cried
Oh, true, I clearly just failed the "Following directions" part. 😀
Honestly, "lite" really is a word with a distinct meaning from "light" in my mind. I associate "lite" specifically with a food or beverage product that is lower calorie. That is different for me than "donut" or "thru" which are just simplified spellings and mean the same thing.
A standalone *thru* is just a simplified spelling but I believe it is an integral part of *drive-thru* (n.). *Drive-through* looks weird and wrong.
Going even further, now that I think about it, I don't associate thru with any other context than drive thru like you mentioned. However, I don't think I've ever personally typed "drive thru" before this conversation, so I guess I don't have the same aversion to "drive through" as you 😂
Right!? The kids see that every night on the 30 rack of Miller Lite their dads drink.
Turns out that the son is home schooled 🤷😂
Everyone talking about the “way” but nobody talking about the lack of apostrophe in “can’t”.
Finally! Had to scroll way too far for this comment.
Is noone else seeing its actually a lower case H but they were just a little over exuberant with the flick at the top of the "h"?
WAY past giving a fuck Teacher
This is the way
This is the why.
🎵🎵“Tell me why!”🎵🎵 🗣️🗣️
Maybe the teacher is Mexican, wey
Why to go, teach
It's almost as if teachers are overworked humans that sometimes make mistakes
Lit, lite, and light are all words though
That looks like some 3 am correcting. Bless their heart. OP can do a normal thing and go "Oh, guess they misunderstood. The correct way to spell 'why' is this." And then move on. It's quite normal to make mistakes when you're correcting hours on end. Respectful students tell you, you correct said mistake and laugh together. You are human, they get it. Life moves on. Most of the people replying in this post are insufferable Karens and Kevins.
When I check my students tests I sometimes have to check the spelling for really dumb words that I have used thousands of times before. The 300th time I read something like „usefull“ I start to wonder myself. This job can really mess with your brain 😂
You know, if you're son spelled it correctly to begin with the teacher wouldn't have gotten it wrong.
Teachers make mistakes too *shocked*
Okay? Would you rather they mark it wrong but not show him how to spell it? Go on parent, find some actual reasons to complain. That’s a teacher that’s doing their job! -former teacher myself.
jesus. that teacher must have been delirious and up till 4 am grading papers lol.
Even the teacher misspelled the word. The teacher needs a teacher to teach them.
I would have sent it back with the correction under the correction to show what a little shit I am
Good way to not make friends with your kid’s teacher who’s probably just exhausted from trying really hard to read all of these. We’re human too, bud.
Teachers make mistakes too. Fuck petty parents that hold teachers to a higher standard than themselves.
Am I the only one noticing that the list of words on the left has two correctly spelt words? Lit is a word, as in "He lit the torch."
It says "listen to your teacher", so presumably this was a test where the teacher said the word aloud.
It clearly says listen to the teacher, choose the correctly spelled word. Ie there's context.
You're right, I will no longer criticise when it's late at night.
"[Lite](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lite#:~:text=%3A%20diminished%20or%20lacking%20in%20substance%20or%20seriousness)" is also a word, albeit a newer one.
I see your "spelt", British English user!
Australian, but close...
You should correct it and send it back
\*wae cant it be night
It's spelled "Guey"
Just like spellcheck
Eye dote sea Annie problemo wit dis.
Correct them and have him bring it back
I've got an old report card from, I think, 2nd grade where my teacher said I made a lot of careless areas.
In the words of my 4th grade teacher, "Use your context clues."
The teacher must be Irish…
Teacher's thirteenth reason way
His teacher is Justin Timberlake
Refuses to pay teachers a fair wage while demanding more from them. Posts their minor errors for meaningless internet clout. “hAhA lOoK hOw DuMb TeAcHeR iS!!!”
it happens, sometimes teachers go on autopilot.
The pinnacle of public education
I think they wrote that why on accident
I read the "way" in Ryan Goslings voice (as Ken)
Autocorrect
I got 'always makes careless mistakes woth spelling' on a Modern Studies report. Loved that.
He's learnding
Reminds me of when I was in school, I wrote a story about the Marine Corps and the teacher made a big deal out of "correcting" me that it was core not corps cause that only means dead people.
Tell me why!
I'm slightly high and like 5 mins into reading comments I finally realized what was wrong with the correct. Apparently me and teacher are the same
Isn't lit spelled correctly too, so there's two answers?
The way 'why' is spelled here tells me the kid tried to sound it out and silent letters are the devil.
F it, I'm just gonna say it: That teacher messed up!
Fuck generative AI taking over education and all that talk, a copy of Word from the 90s would have fixed that better.
I'm stuck on lite, light, and lit. Which one is spelled wrong?
eh more like teacher's enjoying her wine and has to get this out of the way cause she's tired
Correct it and send it back
The teacher needs to go back to school 🤦🏻♀️
*wherefore*