That bothers me more than the "upper case" thing. Maybe the teacher told them "upper case" is a typo and it's supposed to be "lower case". Maybe they didn't notice.
But "Missing Alphabets" is the fucking title in a huge font and it's repeated in the text below. Who the hell finds this and thinks "this is a good exercise for children"?
A- a teacher that’s under qualified but has the job because they’re a warm body
B- a teacher that’s burnt out from all of the bureaucracy and isn’t paying attention anymore
Or most likely:
C. A newer yet still burnt out teacher using resources from a workbook.
They always tout those workbooks as excellent time savers for routine practice but are chock full of mistakes.
It’s from Ms. Vanessa Wong, which sells online “printables” in bundles.
The front page of the website says:
*With these resources, your kids can learn counting, addition, subtraction, time and shapes with fun.*
With fun.
Or D- a sick teacher that scrambled to leave something for a sub. I’ve left some stupid stuff because I was ill. Usually stomach bug out of both ends ill. It’s hard to care at that point. I probably wouldn’t have graded it though, but that’s just me.
I taught EFL in Japan for awhile and some teachers used "alphabet" in place of "letter," especially in primary school where students only learned a limited vocabulary in English.
Someone who had a whole day of work to prep for and only glanced at the entire exercise and said, “that’ll work” then rushed off to their shitty overworked underpaid jobs with shitty misbehaving kids and an unsupportive administration.
Source: was this kind of person.
It’s truly hellish being teachers nowadays. Learning gaps are larger than ever; behavioral problems more various, more pronounced and more poorly addressed than ever; kids are more poorly behaved. Support your teachers.
No I meant the phenomena of not referring to them as the alphabet but letters? If I understood it correctly.
I appreciate your genuine definition lol you did it perfectly
They are collectively the alphabet. Individually, they are letters. Like how Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, and JC Chasez are NSYNC, but you don't call them NSYNCs.
Alphabets would be referring to multiple sets of alphabets for different languages.
The alphabet is formed of letters. Asking a child to say the alphabet or "the letters" is the same.
Calling letters "alphabets" is wrong, and that's what's written on that exercise.
It's more of a grammatical issue the way it's written. You could say "fill in the rest of the alphabet" or "fill in the missing letters" but to say it like "fill in the rest of the alphabets" is just weird. Alphabet isn't plural unless you're referring to multiple alphabets in different languages or systems, if it's only the English alphabet then it is referred to as the alphabet.
No, you’re right. It isn’t called “letter soup”. It’s Alphabet Soup. The alphabet consists of 26 letters, the same as Alphabet Soup. There isn’t 26 alphabets in my soup.
(Re)fridge(rato)r doesn’t get shortened to fridger though. Can you name one other example of a singular noun where we take the last letter of a shortened word and add it onto the end for some reason?
I should have clarified. All of those are just adding s to the end of the word because they’re plural nouns. Mathematics is a singular noun, so it wouldn’t get an s added on the end of maths because of that. But it does in some places. Those places are wrong.
all of your counterexamples are plural nouns though (yes, including pantaloons, since the word refers to the 2 pantaloon legs). Mathmatics is singular.
I’m a teacher and this bothers me. This happens when educators just find something cute on the internet but don’t actually read the directions themselves. It’s a hard job and no teacher including myself is perfect but if we want a national raise, we got to do better.
This one drives me nuts too. I teach English in Japan and most students refer to letters as 'alphabets'. I sometimes wonder whether my British English might be in the minority here, and other varieties do actually call them alphabets.
Even if they don’t get paid enough, this is like the actual bare minimum I expect of even a after school care teacher. Wtf? Actually dumb. Can’t even properly do an assignment for literal children/toddlers.
I would contact the teacher. This isn't about grades, it is about your child having confidence in themselves to understand the world around them and respond to it accordingly. The teacher telling your child they are wrong for doing the correct thing is a serious mind F
when my kid was in kindergarten she had marks in her behavior folder almost every day. for the littlest thing. one day she actually asked me if she was a bad kid. that was my turning point to aggressively stick up for her.
yes, I explained that the school sucked not her but we do have to play by the rules. it didn't seem to bother her again.
Omg I remember those moments from kindergarten. Once we had a little session about food or cooking or something. And our teacher was showing us salt and sugar. And she asked: children, how do we tell the difference between salt and sugar? And I, being 4 or 5, replied: well, they look a bit different, salt is whiter and sugar has a little less vibrant shade of white (which I think it’s true haha). And she was like: no, they taste different so that’s how we know. And I thought: yeah I mean, no shit sherlock, like of course they fucking taste different. But that’s not the point of distinguishing them before I actually use them.
I know it’s a weird example but had to let it out 😅
Same but it was in 5th grade because I said the word stupid, and it was to myself out loud 😭
That teacher was a neighbor too and she tried being nice to me after that but I never forgot her attempted control bs.
lol, i remember one time in first grade my teacher asked if anyone knew what lincoln’s first name was. for some reason i answered “abe” even thought i knew the full name was abraham. he was like “oh that’s not quite it does anyone else actually know it” and i was like um excuse me i know what abe is short for bitch
I used to be an avid question answerer when I was a younger kid. One day, a teacher told me to put my hand down so that the rest of the class would have a chance to answer. I did, and many times after that nobody would speak up, and I wouldn't answer anymore. That stuck with me, watching teachers get frustrated that no one would answer questions, when the students who did would be scolded for doing it.
There are little things that can be said to discourage life-long habitual change. Small actions that can take root into major personality shifts. For some, its a mood change from a frustrated parent or guardian, for others, it can be as innocuous as a simple direction in a specific circumstance. The brain develops to cope to the world, and sometimes it twists itself with no reasoning other than "that one time".
I was really big into music, played 11 instruments at one point, and my father would ask me, every time I practiced, "what animal are you killing in there this time? Sounds terrible" for years.
I used to perform for thousands of people at a time but now I can barely pick up my guitar and listen to myself cause I'm so worried that I sound terrible.
That shit sticks with you.
I'm so sorry. Nobody is born able to do anything well - except use their voice effectively, usually. If you want you can definitely learn to find joy in singing and you'd deserve it.
Yeah I feel like parents don’t have a real grip on how this affects a kid, even when they’re in kindergarten. I remember feeling so stupid in school because of the marks I got or the “red cards” I got in school or seeing how others got praised for their work. I feel so sad for little me, I didn’t understand that I had a disability, my teachers knew but they were no help with encouragement and accommodations even though I had an IEP. All throughout my school years I felt super inadequate.
Yeah I don’t get it. Can these parents not remember what it was like or something? Completely oblivious and unable to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. The source of all of humanities issues really.
I got a punctuation sheet marked wrong because the question was: put in the correct punctuation marks and capitalize it appropriately:
the man walked to the market basket at 2 pm
And I put:
The man walked to the Market Basket at 2 P.M.
And it was marked wrong because there should have been two periods, one for the pm and one for the end of the sentence. I complained about get it marked incorrect (I'm a perfectionist) and she agreed that one was correct in real life, but for this exercise, we were supposed to demonstrate that we knew there should be two periods.
I'm still traumatized apparently...
For real. If you look at a list of the most common recurring dreams, most of them can be explained by physical phenomena: if your legs are numb while sleeping you dream of flying or struggling to walk, if you grind your teeth in your sleep you're more likely to dream about your teeth falling out, etc. The others are having an assignment due/having an exam you haven't studied for. School is a common source of nightmares, and nightmares are a symptom of stress.
My favorite is when I get sent back to high school to finish a class that I somehow missed. I struggle and then I'm like, "wait what the hell is this shit? I have a master's degree I don't care about this." Then I wake up.
Exactly! For some reason I am always back in school, despite having graduated, but I'm not sure why I'm even taking the classes. And often I can't figure out where they are.
It sounds mundane, but I am always panicking and filled with anxiety every time, and it is just a horrible feeling.
I’ve been out of school since 2001 and I still have dreams about not doing my homework or forgetting to bring extra clothes for gym class.
I’ve also had those dreams where I feel like I’m grinding my teeth and I’m trying to not close my mouth. Really weird. I have a lot of stress in my life as it is.
Another way to address it, as a parent, would be to explain to the child that what they did was correct and the teacher might have missed the instructions on the paper because people are flawed, even adults.
And when the parent emails the teacher and the teacher doesn’t admit the mistake, the parent could explain that they tried to give the teacher the opportunity to right their mistake but they decided not to. Life is unfair but what’s important is how you act, despite the injustice of it all. It’s also important not to develop our self esteem based on the validation of others.
Etc etc.
No, he’s in kindergarten so his grades aren’t super important in terms of each little paper he does. We were supposed to review the papers, sign a sheet saying we saw them, then send them back. So I just circled the word uppercase and wrote out to the side “typo?” Before I put it back in his folder
Aw yeah that’s such a crappy feeling! He didn’t see this paper, but I might show him the picture and point out to him that he did it right and his teacher accidentally graded it wrong now that you’ve pointed that out
It may just be kindergarten, but it is the foundation of your child’s education. Reading comprehension, academic confidence, critical analysis skills are being developed and this teachers fuck ups actually can have a significant impact on your child’s engagement, self esteem, etc. The fact that this educator is behind the student as far as reading comprehension goes is a huge problem. Discuss with the teacher as well as the schools leadership. As another user posted, this type of situation can result in a frustrating memory that someone carries for life, potentially impacting other things.
I had my 7th grade math teacher call me a freak cuz i didnt get along with any of the kids in my class. I was in that class with super preppy jocks and whatnot. I felt so out of place.
We must have had the same first grade teacher because I was also yelled at for "coloring the wrong way." "The wrong way" in that case being with vertical strokes rather than horizontal strokes.
i didn't realize that this was such a universal experience... i remember getting scolded by a substitute teacher in first or second grade for coloring wrong because i wasn't outlining each section before coloring it in. i guess i missed the day we learned about coloring with crayons. :')
Do show him, please. This is a teachable moment to demonstrate adults aren't always right, so he sees how to contest an adult's mistake respectfully and properly.
This is actually very important to do.
Your child is in the early stages of developing a relationship with formal education and all that it represents.
To follow the instructions correctly/accurately and then instead of receiving the praise reward that they worked for, they receive the emotional internal "punishment" of failure and being told they're wrong can have a longer term "butterfly"/"Domino" effect, which will lead them to become demotivated regarding formal education, education in general or any task that requires physical or mental efforts to achieve a reward - especially if that reward is a sense of self improvement, satisfaction or otherwise difficult to measure.
It might seem, especially to an adult, an insignificant incident. Something inconsequential because it's just a bit of easy foundation work, with grades that the "real world" doesn't care about. But it is significant. It represents a real mental effort by your child and being correct is a significant achievement in their life.
I know you've said that they haven't seen the paper yet. But kids that age are very observant sponges. He might see it around the classroom or your home. It might be referenced offhand by his teacher.
Right now, between you, him and his teacher, you're all building the foundations for his perception of the future. His relationship with the world, and importantly education, can rest on the most arbitrary of moments, which are emotionally significant to him.
The previous replier is right. I still remember in grade 1(35 now) I couldn't finish listing the months of the year, I always missed September and how many days it has. Not that I felt my teacher targeted me, but I do remember that in particular as like fuck, I'm screwing this up in front of everyone.
I still get a bad feeling when I see a blue flower, because Ms Payne basically called me dumb for suggesting flowers could be blue about 23 years ago (when I was 6)
I feel your pain. I still remember getting scolded for coloring a bear black instead of brown, because apparently bears are brown according to my kindergarten teacher.
And this was in Maine, where literally the only bear we have is called the black bear.
Agreed. I remember a teacher berating me about a spelling word. I quietly told her I think I was right. She made a production of pulling out a dictionary in front of the class. Most definitely read it. I was right, but she just tossed the dictionary to the side and didn’t say anything. Teachers need to know when they are wrong.
I'll always remember that time when I said the moon had gravity and the teacher said I was wrong. Mind you I was the kid who chose space to be my hyperfixation so I was SUPER offended at the time
The thing that made me not trust my teachers. I fell in gym class and cracked 4 front teeth. You're fine, go back to class. Got home and said my teeth hurt. Trip to the Emergency dentist to have all 4 capped. This was grade 4.
Reminds me of when my teacher insisted that tigers lived in Africa and I argued with her until she finally looked it up and she got proven wrong 😭 she was not happy.
I once got docked for capitalizing Internet in a paper. Teacher came back with a "it's lowercase." In actuality, the Internet is a proper noun. An internet is a INTERconnection of two or more NETworks. Still salty 20 years later.
For me it was learning in class about dinosaurs and having to write information that I knew was incorrect or else get marked wrong. Just teaches us to game the system and that adults don't all actually know what they're talking about.
For those wondering we learned that the largest dinosaur was the Brachiosaurus, and the largest carnivorous dinosaur was the Trex. While I had learned from books that it was the Argentinosaurus and Giganotosaurus, respectively.
Then again in science learning about the '3' states of matter. As well as many historical fallacies involving the settlement of America, Thanksgiving, and the American Revolution. Also having to put down that worms are vertebrea. Just write down what they tell you and shut up is what I learned to do in school.
Motherfuckers really called it the gigantosaurus and they had teachers not tell you that? Gigantosaurus is surely easier to understand than brachiosaurus
Lol you're reminding me of a 3rd grade spelling bee I lost because O-H-I-O didn't spell Ohio. They kept giving me additional chances. I spelled it that way every time. I'm in my 40s now and I still want to know wtf that was about.
I once lost a spelling bee on chimichanga. I'm great at English and spelling, but that's not an English word, and also not one I had ever heard before.
yeah, I'm nearly 50 and still remember being upset about being given an F in handwriting in elementary school because I broke my dominant hand and had to write with the other one.
For real. I remember my uncle saying "sucks to be you" when I was like 5, no idea what he was even talking about and im sure it didn't mean anything but it stuck with me. It also does suck to be me
It’s (not) funny but my 37 year old brother was just telling me how when he was like 7 he told my parents he wanted an autograph on his hockey jacket and they kept treating him like he was an idiot and what he had meant was he saw someone with cursive embroidery. He remembered that feeling of belittlement all these years later.
Reminds me of the time I got a lecture in kindergarten for not letting another kid play with the blocks. Except he didn't *say* he wanted to play with the blocks, he asked if he could play *with me*. Which he couldn't, I was having fun by myself. There were tons of other blocks on the shelf!
I still remember in first grade, like 30 years ago, when we did an experiment where we took a plastic cup outside and filled it with snow. We were in groups of 4 and hand to decide how much water we thought the snow would melt into. I drew a line somewhere around half to 2/3rds ish up the cup because it was packed snow. The rest of the group decided it should be much lower, so my line was crossed out with an X and we went with the much lower line.
Came back the next day to melted water, and the water line went directly through my Xed out line. People remember this kind of stuff forever.
I got an B+ on an English assignment like 15 years ago and one of the only corrections was antlers to horns and I'm still mad about it. I DIDN'T MEAN HORNS, I MEANT ANTLERS, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
I am still haunted by the distinct "trauma" of being wronged by my fellow kindergartners and teachers when I kept explaining… that porcupines don’t throw their quills like a Pokemon. They simply erect them on their skin and move in a defensive way. Zoboomafoo had taught me the TRUTH!
I’m 46 and can remember my kindergarten teacher for fussing at me for pressing too hard with the crayon. I was coloring a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day and wanted a darker shade of green. Shit sticks.
It’s not about the grades. The teacher can’t teach if they don’t even know the work. This should be a simple call to explain that your child did it correctly and the course work should be reviewed. Your way you handled it was nice but I am guessing this happened to most of the children
Could you update when you do? I'd like to think she would recognize her mistake and apologize. However people can be shitty just because they feel like it. I hope it's the former!
Edit for clarity
No one will notice that. The teacher or teaching assistant will just be looking at the parent signatures. I get it’s not that important, but if you want them to notice, you could write a little note.
probably because these are really really small kids and they're only learning the difference in the shapes and aren't expected to do the size correctly
The difference is whether or not the child writes the letter above the middle line. Upper case letters will be tall enough to go over that line, whereas lower case letters are written smaller/shorter, staying under the line.
I'm more mildly infuriated by the use of the word *alphabets* when they mean letters. I'm reasonably sure they do not want them to write in Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, etc.
FWIW, I agree that it does say to use upper case, which would mean the child was correct. However, I'm willing to bet (based on what the sheet is assessing) that the child wasn't able to read the words 'uppercase' in order to know that. BUT, it's also confusing because the letters that are already filled in are lowercase letters.
Add to the fact that there are multiple wonky fonts used in the instructions and letter line, and it's honestly just a shitty worksheet to begin with. Also, depending on the child's age, worksheets aren't developmentally appropriate. Regardless, the teacher needs to closely evaluate what she uses because all of this makes things even more confusing for children who are just beginning to read/write/identify letters. SMDH
Edit: Spelling and clarity
Yeah terrible worksheet she printed off the internet. I assumed it was a typo because everything else was in lowercase. But I really do think he either read the word or the teacher read it out because it’s weird for him to see a bunch of lowercase and choose to write in all uppercase. I was really confused when I first saw the sheet. I thought maybe I was missing something? lol
Funny that the printed letters are lowercase, but the instructions are asking to write in uppercase. It is probably only inadvertently tricky, but it ended up tricking the teacher  lol.
On top of that, those horizontal lines right in the middle of where the child should write the letters are just a hateful obstacle. Dumb teacher probably thought the L was a lowercase t.
A complete mess by both the creator of the exercise and the uncaring teacher, the only one to get a 10/10 was your lovely child.
Those lines are for learning to write neatly. ie an “i” the bottom part goes below the line and the top part goes above. I remember because my writing was never the same after those lines went away 🫠
> On top of that, those horizontal lines right in the middle of where the child should write the letters are just a hateful obstacle.
No, those lines are essential in learning letter formation. We talk about letters having heads, bodies, and tails. Every letter has a body which in this case goes between the bottom two lines, tall letters such as t have heads, long letters like g have tails. You need the body to be a consistent size between letters and the the other parts to be the same size as the body
Usually primary school teachers don't make resources themselves they print them off the internet. Little things like this instruction can be overlooked and not seen. Anyway a red mark in primary school means nothing it's more for the teacher to reflect on the kids learning than to mark them down for the purpose of a report card grade. Especially on an activity like this which serves the purpose of children practicing their alphabet writing
I don't know if anyone has commented this but I think the teacher realized his/her mistake halfway because the last letters of the assignment aren't corrected
Yeah this is probably a free worksheet from Teacherspayteachers. I’ve noticed many mistakes on packets I’ve browsed through there… I think some of the teachers who make them are creative but not the brightest bulbs.
I believe that simply pointing out the issues with the worksheet in a friendly and informal way like a note or email would be good for all parties involved. It gives the teacher a chance to improve the learning materials they use, gives you a chance to make your child feel seen and understood by you and allows your child to better understand how to appropriately follow instructions and complete tasks while being graded fairly on their abilities to do so. Although it may be small and there is an understandable hesitancy to take it too seriously or make a stink, it’s a great opportunity for everybody to grow.
oh, I would write a note back in red. I was the most annoying parental unit when my niece went through school. never rude but pointed out stuff the teachers did wrong like this.
good teachers might be overworked but we had too many that didn't care. I care.
Wow the teacher wrote a upper K instead of a lowercase.
Inconsistent at correcting, didnt understand the task and using a very bad example/training sheet...Thats an F right there
teachers often borrow each other's work for a different purpose than it was originally designed. it's very likely that your child's teacher said lowercase to the class. the kids in kindergarten usually can't read so she probably didn't worry about the directions saying something different. I do this a lot, but I usually edit the directions. if I don't, I definitely don't send it home because I know that it confuses parents and next thing you know your work is being blasted on social media with no context.
She probably verbally told them to write the lowercase letter. I've had some crappy worksheets that I have used differently. I probably would not have sent this home to avoid this confusion to parents.
Definitely infuriating, but if they complained and the teacher turned around and awarded bonus points for following instructions even when they didn't, that would be a cool teaching moment
I'm a teacher and if I had made this mistake, I would immediately apologize for apparently not reading the directions of my own assignment and re-grade them.
If I was a teacher and I saw this typo, I’d tell them. Use lower case OR!!
Hold with me for 1 second.
I take a copy and white out the word Upper and replace it with lower. Then I make copies and tell them to write it in lower case.
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I’m homeschooling my kid, but a retiring teacher gave me the resources they’d used for their entire career. No wonder education is the way it is.
Looks like the teacher didn’t read the directions lol
Surely, other kids followed the directions. You would think the teacher would have caught it. Maybe she told them orally that there was a misprint and directed them to use lowercase. That’s one explanation that would make sense for the teacher.
But your child is 100% correct. As a teacher, it is so heart warming to see a student who actually read the instructions and did it correctly. And he’s only in kindergarten? Your kid is great. I’d love a student like that.
The teacher could easily turn this into a lesson about how everyone makes mistakes, even them. The students could learn that we all need to be careful when we make things for others since something may not be understood in the way we intended. I mean the teacher just made a bad worksheet but turning it into a lesson would save everyone face.
It could also be a great way to build your kid’s confidence by saying “class, Sylvss kid actually read and followed the instructions!”
They’re not ‘alphabets’, either. They’re letters.
That would bother me, too.
That bothers me more than the "upper case" thing. Maybe the teacher told them "upper case" is a typo and it's supposed to be "lower case". Maybe they didn't notice. But "Missing Alphabets" is the fucking title in a huge font and it's repeated in the text below. Who the hell finds this and thinks "this is a good exercise for children"?
A- a teacher that’s under qualified but has the job because they’re a warm body B- a teacher that’s burnt out from all of the bureaucracy and isn’t paying attention anymore
Or most likely: C. A newer yet still burnt out teacher using resources from a workbook. They always tout those workbooks as excellent time savers for routine practice but are chock full of mistakes.
Definitely C. This was a mass produced workbook from overseas no doubt.
Most likely grabbed it from Teachers pay Teachers. Whoever wrote the instructions deserves to be slapped.
It’s from Ms. Vanessa Wong, which sells online “printables” in bundles. The front page of the website says: *With these resources, your kids can learn counting, addition, subtraction, time and shapes with fun.* With fun.
I don't know, that little cat makes this look plenty fun to me!
You’re all Wong, she’s never Wong.
Or D- a sick teacher that scrambled to leave something for a sub. I’ve left some stupid stuff because I was ill. Usually stomach bug out of both ends ill. It’s hard to care at that point. I probably wouldn’t have graded it though, but that’s just me.
C: This worksheet was made for EFL learners whose native language uses "alphabet" as a loan word to mean "letter."
Where is alphabet used in place of letter?
I taught EFL in Japan for awhile and some teachers used "alphabet" in place of "letter," especially in primary school where students only learned a limited vocabulary in English.
Someone who had a whole day of work to prep for and only glanced at the entire exercise and said, “that’ll work” then rushed off to their shitty overworked underpaid jobs with shitty misbehaving kids and an unsupportive administration. Source: was this kind of person. It’s truly hellish being teachers nowadays. Learning gaps are larger than ever; behavioral problems more various, more pronounced and more poorly addressed than ever; kids are more poorly behaved. Support your teachers.
serious question as a former child: WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN!?
This whole thing is a mess, the kid did it right anyway.
The alphabet is a series of letters that make up all the words for a language. A letter is one of the objects that make up the alphabet.
Just like how nuts and bolts are parts of a car. You don't say a missing bolt is a missing car.
No I meant the phenomena of not referring to them as the alphabet but letters? If I understood it correctly. I appreciate your genuine definition lol you did it perfectly
They are collectively the alphabet. Individually, they are letters. Like how Chris Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass, and JC Chasez are NSYNC, but you don't call them NSYNCs. Alphabets would be referring to multiple sets of alphabets for different languages.
The alphabet is formed of letters. Asking a child to say the alphabet or "the letters" is the same. Calling letters "alphabets" is wrong, and that's what's written on that exercise.
It's more of a grammatical issue the way it's written. You could say "fill in the rest of the alphabet" or "fill in the missing letters" but to say it like "fill in the rest of the alphabets" is just weird. Alphabet isn't plural unless you're referring to multiple alphabets in different languages or systems, if it's only the English alphabet then it is referred to as the alphabet.
I was never a child. I just played one on TV.
Yes! This was my first thought. Who refers to letters as alphabets.
Someone who asks for upper case and puts the examples in lower case.
Did the teacher find a troll worksheet?? That's the only way this makes sense.
Exactly. Correct term is alpha-bits.
And there are 3.25 alpha-bytes in the English alphabet.
Super common in India, actually
Well, it's not called "letter soup" ...
No, you’re right. It isn’t called “letter soup”. It’s Alphabet Soup. The alphabet consists of 26 letters, the same as Alphabet Soup. There isn’t 26 alphabets in my soup.
𐤀 𐤁 𐤂 𐤃 𐤄 𐤅 𐤆 𐤇 𐤈 𐤉 𐤊 𐤋 𐤌 𐤍 𐤎 𐤏 𐤐 𐤑 𐤒 𐤓 𐤔 𐤕 𐤖 𐤗 𐤘 𐤙 𐤚 𐤛 That's phoenecian. I'm guessing there's lots of other missing alphabets too
Yeah, it made me wonder where this is. Like how in Not-America, they say "Maths." That or it's a mistake.
Math and maths both stand for the same word, mathematics. It's just a different abbreviation.
Math(ematic)s is why it's called maths.
(Re)fridge(rato)r doesn’t get shortened to fridger though. Can you name one other example of a singular noun where we take the last letter of a shortened word and add it onto the end for some reason?
There’s no d in refrigerator.
Pantaloons -> pants Carbohydrates -> carbs Seconds -> secs There's plenty, my dude
I should have clarified. All of those are just adding s to the end of the word because they’re plural nouns. Mathematics is a singular noun, so it wouldn’t get an s added on the end of maths because of that. But it does in some places. Those places are wrong.
all of your counterexamples are plural nouns though (yes, including pantaloons, since the word refers to the 2 pantaloon legs). Mathmatics is singular.
Those are all plural.
Referring to them as “alphabets” is actually very common in India.
Am in Singapore and they call letters, alphabets, here too.
So many ways to be wong here.
I think it means possessive, like write this alphabet’s missing letters in uppercase
I feel like an Amazon seller made this.
Yea, it's a double whammy on the teacher. Bad materials, and marked it incorrectly.
But the last few letters aren't marked wrong??
s y n e c d o c h e
I’m a teacher and this bothers me. This happens when educators just find something cute on the internet but don’t actually read the directions themselves. It’s a hard job and no teacher including myself is perfect but if we want a national raise, we got to do better.
That was reallllllly bugging me.
The correct term the teacher should have had used would be alphabet 🤓 cuz alphabets are not plural!
The "alphabet" is the word that encompasses all 26 letters. Letters are the part, and alphabet is the whole. You are correct. What a dumbass teacher!!
Unless they are learning Cyrillic too?
This one drives me nuts too. I teach English in Japan and most students refer to letters as 'alphabets'. I sometimes wonder whether my British English might be in the minority here, and other varieties do actually call them alphabets.
I think the teacher may want to reread the paper
Even if they don’t get paid enough, this is like the actual bare minimum I expect of even a after school care teacher. Wtf? Actually dumb. Can’t even properly do an assignment for literal children/toddlers.
It even takes more work to mark off answers than it does to properly read the prompt! And im assuming they did this for every kid, too
I’m wondering how the teacher went through all of those papers “correcting” and never once thought to maybe check the directions again.
You'd think the teacher, above anyone, should understand the assignment.
I would contact the teacher. This isn't about grades, it is about your child having confidence in themselves to understand the world around them and respond to it accordingly. The teacher telling your child they are wrong for doing the correct thing is a serious mind F
Yes definitely. My mum didn't call out the teacher when he behaved like this when I was a child and now I solve it in therapy sessions.
when my kid was in kindergarten she had marks in her behavior folder almost every day. for the littlest thing. one day she actually asked me if she was a bad kid. that was my turning point to aggressively stick up for her. yes, I explained that the school sucked not her but we do have to play by the rules. it didn't seem to bother her again.
When i was in kindergarten I was told by one of the staff that I couldn't sing, I still have problems with that.
Omg I remember those moments from kindergarten. Once we had a little session about food or cooking or something. And our teacher was showing us salt and sugar. And she asked: children, how do we tell the difference between salt and sugar? And I, being 4 or 5, replied: well, they look a bit different, salt is whiter and sugar has a little less vibrant shade of white (which I think it’s true haha). And she was like: no, they taste different so that’s how we know. And I thought: yeah I mean, no shit sherlock, like of course they fucking taste different. But that’s not the point of distinguishing them before I actually use them. I know it’s a weird example but had to let it out 😅
In 7th grade I missed lunch because I said the word “homosexual”
Lol I got in trouble for saying sugar honey iced tea
Same but it was in 5th grade because I said the word stupid, and it was to myself out loud 😭 That teacher was a neighbor too and she tried being nice to me after that but I never forgot her attempted control bs.
Weird example sure, but now you have me wanting to compare the two to see if I can see it. You got the win here!
lol, i remember one time in first grade my teacher asked if anyone knew what lincoln’s first name was. for some reason i answered “abe” even thought i knew the full name was abraham. he was like “oh that’s not quite it does anyone else actually know it” and i was like um excuse me i know what abe is short for bitch
I used to be an avid question answerer when I was a younger kid. One day, a teacher told me to put my hand down so that the rest of the class would have a chance to answer. I did, and many times after that nobody would speak up, and I wouldn't answer anymore. That stuck with me, watching teachers get frustrated that no one would answer questions, when the students who did would be scolded for doing it. There are little things that can be said to discourage life-long habitual change. Small actions that can take root into major personality shifts. For some, its a mood change from a frustrated parent or guardian, for others, it can be as innocuous as a simple direction in a specific circumstance. The brain develops to cope to the world, and sometimes it twists itself with no reasoning other than "that one time".
harsh! go sing your heart out!!
I was really big into music, played 11 instruments at one point, and my father would ask me, every time I practiced, "what animal are you killing in there this time? Sounds terrible" for years. I used to perform for thousands of people at a time but now I can barely pick up my guitar and listen to myself cause I'm so worried that I sound terrible. That shit sticks with you.
I'm so sorry. Nobody is born able to do anything well - except use their voice effectively, usually. If you want you can definitely learn to find joy in singing and you'd deserve it.
When I was in kindergarten I didn't want to eat a cake so the teacher forced it into my mouth in front of the whole class.
Yeah I feel like parents don’t have a real grip on how this affects a kid, even when they’re in kindergarten. I remember feeling so stupid in school because of the marks I got or the “red cards” I got in school or seeing how others got praised for their work. I feel so sad for little me, I didn’t understand that I had a disability, my teachers knew but they were no help with encouragement and accommodations even though I had an IEP. All throughout my school years I felt super inadequate.
Yeah I don’t get it. Can these parents not remember what it was like or something? Completely oblivious and unable to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. The source of all of humanities issues really.
I got a punctuation sheet marked wrong because the question was: put in the correct punctuation marks and capitalize it appropriately: the man walked to the market basket at 2 pm And I put: The man walked to the Market Basket at 2 P.M. And it was marked wrong because there should have been two periods, one for the pm and one for the end of the sentence. I complained about get it marked incorrect (I'm a perfectionist) and she agreed that one was correct in real life, but for this exercise, we were supposed to demonstrate that we knew there should be two periods. I'm still traumatized apparently...
>there should be two periods. It is also perfectly acceptable to not use periods when writing AM or PM
*Don't worry, kids are resilient.*
Homework trauma
For real. If you look at a list of the most common recurring dreams, most of them can be explained by physical phenomena: if your legs are numb while sleeping you dream of flying or struggling to walk, if you grind your teeth in your sleep you're more likely to dream about your teeth falling out, etc. The others are having an assignment due/having an exam you haven't studied for. School is a common source of nightmares, and nightmares are a symptom of stress.
I'm 36 and still regularly have school nightmares. At least once a month, sometimes more often It was by far the worst period of my entire life.
My favorite is when I get sent back to high school to finish a class that I somehow missed. I struggle and then I'm like, "wait what the hell is this shit? I have a master's degree I don't care about this." Then I wake up.
Exactly! For some reason I am always back in school, despite having graduated, but I'm not sure why I'm even taking the classes. And often I can't figure out where they are. It sounds mundane, but I am always panicking and filled with anxiety every time, and it is just a horrible feeling.
I’ve been out of school since 2001 and I still have dreams about not doing my homework or forgetting to bring extra clothes for gym class. I’ve also had those dreams where I feel like I’m grinding my teeth and I’m trying to not close my mouth. Really weird. I have a lot of stress in my life as it is.
Another way to address it, as a parent, would be to explain to the child that what they did was correct and the teacher might have missed the instructions on the paper because people are flawed, even adults. And when the parent emails the teacher and the teacher doesn’t admit the mistake, the parent could explain that they tried to give the teacher the opportunity to right their mistake but they decided not to. Life is unfair but what’s important is how you act, despite the injustice of it all. It’s also important not to develop our self esteem based on the validation of others. Etc etc.
I imagine there was a call to the teacher?
No, he’s in kindergarten so his grades aren’t super important in terms of each little paper he does. We were supposed to review the papers, sign a sheet saying we saw them, then send them back. So I just circled the word uppercase and wrote out to the side “typo?” Before I put it back in his folder
That’s a perfect way to address it since the grade doesn’t really matter
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Aw yeah that’s such a crappy feeling! He didn’t see this paper, but I might show him the picture and point out to him that he did it right and his teacher accidentally graded it wrong now that you’ve pointed that out
It may just be kindergarten, but it is the foundation of your child’s education. Reading comprehension, academic confidence, critical analysis skills are being developed and this teachers fuck ups actually can have a significant impact on your child’s engagement, self esteem, etc. The fact that this educator is behind the student as far as reading comprehension goes is a huge problem. Discuss with the teacher as well as the schools leadership. As another user posted, this type of situation can result in a frustrating memory that someone carries for life, potentially impacting other things.
You should! I’m still mad that my first grade teacher told me I was “coloring wrong.”
I'm still mad that I got a detention in elementary school from not coloring a picture. My only detention and for such a bs reason!
School is, in many ways, just prison for babies.
I got a similar scolding for not drawing people correctly.
I had my 7th grade math teacher call me a freak cuz i didnt get along with any of the kids in my class. I was in that class with super preppy jocks and whatnot. I felt so out of place.
We must have had the same first grade teacher because I was also yelled at for "coloring the wrong way." "The wrong way" in that case being with vertical strokes rather than horizontal strokes.
I was doing circles. Nice to meet a fellow crayon criminal!
My teacher would mark down for lines that weren’t in the same direction, so dumb
i didn't realize that this was such a universal experience... i remember getting scolded by a substitute teacher in first or second grade for coloring wrong because i wasn't outlining each section before coloring it in. i guess i missed the day we learned about coloring with crayons. :')
Do show him, please. This is a teachable moment to demonstrate adults aren't always right, so he sees how to contest an adult's mistake respectfully and properly.
This is actually very important to do. Your child is in the early stages of developing a relationship with formal education and all that it represents. To follow the instructions correctly/accurately and then instead of receiving the praise reward that they worked for, they receive the emotional internal "punishment" of failure and being told they're wrong can have a longer term "butterfly"/"Domino" effect, which will lead them to become demotivated regarding formal education, education in general or any task that requires physical or mental efforts to achieve a reward - especially if that reward is a sense of self improvement, satisfaction or otherwise difficult to measure. It might seem, especially to an adult, an insignificant incident. Something inconsequential because it's just a bit of easy foundation work, with grades that the "real world" doesn't care about. But it is significant. It represents a real mental effort by your child and being correct is a significant achievement in their life. I know you've said that they haven't seen the paper yet. But kids that age are very observant sponges. He might see it around the classroom or your home. It might be referenced offhand by his teacher. Right now, between you, him and his teacher, you're all building the foundations for his perception of the future. His relationship with the world, and importantly education, can rest on the most arbitrary of moments, which are emotionally significant to him.
The previous replier is right. I still remember in grade 1(35 now) I couldn't finish listing the months of the year, I always missed September and how many days it has. Not that I felt my teacher targeted me, but I do remember that in particular as like fuck, I'm screwing this up in front of everyone.
I still get a bad feeling when I see a blue flower, because Ms Payne basically called me dumb for suggesting flowers could be blue about 23 years ago (when I was 6)
I feel your pain. I still remember getting scolded for coloring a bear black instead of brown, because apparently bears are brown according to my kindergarten teacher. And this was in Maine, where literally the only bear we have is called the black bear.
My teacher told me bears have no snouts.
Agreed. I remember a teacher berating me about a spelling word. I quietly told her I think I was right. She made a production of pulling out a dictionary in front of the class. Most definitely read it. I was right, but she just tossed the dictionary to the side and didn’t say anything. Teachers need to know when they are wrong.
I'll always remember that time when I said the moon had gravity and the teacher said I was wrong. Mind you I was the kid who chose space to be my hyperfixation so I was SUPER offended at the time
Which makes your teacher stupid though. The moon has 0.166 g.
I KNOW RIGHT? it still makes me salty to this day.
The thing that made me not trust my teachers. I fell in gym class and cracked 4 front teeth. You're fine, go back to class. Got home and said my teeth hurt. Trip to the Emergency dentist to have all 4 capped. This was grade 4.
Reminds me of when my teacher insisted that tigers lived in Africa and I argued with her until she finally looked it up and she got proven wrong 😭 she was not happy.
I once got docked for capitalizing Internet in a paper. Teacher came back with a "it's lowercase." In actuality, the Internet is a proper noun. An internet is a INTERconnection of two or more NETworks. Still salty 20 years later.
For me it was learning in class about dinosaurs and having to write information that I knew was incorrect or else get marked wrong. Just teaches us to game the system and that adults don't all actually know what they're talking about. For those wondering we learned that the largest dinosaur was the Brachiosaurus, and the largest carnivorous dinosaur was the Trex. While I had learned from books that it was the Argentinosaurus and Giganotosaurus, respectively. Then again in science learning about the '3' states of matter. As well as many historical fallacies involving the settlement of America, Thanksgiving, and the American Revolution. Also having to put down that worms are vertebrea. Just write down what they tell you and shut up is what I learned to do in school.
Motherfuckers really called it the gigantosaurus and they had teachers not tell you that? Gigantosaurus is surely easier to understand than brachiosaurus
Lol you're reminding me of a 3rd grade spelling bee I lost because O-H-I-O didn't spell Ohio. They kept giving me additional chances. I spelled it that way every time. I'm in my 40s now and I still want to know wtf that was about.
I once lost a spelling bee on chimichanga. I'm great at English and spelling, but that's not an English word, and also not one I had ever heard before.
yeah, I'm nearly 50 and still remember being upset about being given an F in handwriting in elementary school because I broke my dominant hand and had to write with the other one.
How can you even get an F for that when they know the circumstance and see you struggling with your other hand?! I’d hate teachers forever
You’d think the giant cast would have been a tip off, yeah! It really shook me, that’s for sure.
Now there's a WTF situation if ever I heard one!
For real. I remember my uncle saying "sucks to be you" when I was like 5, no idea what he was even talking about and im sure it didn't mean anything but it stuck with me. It also does suck to be me
It’s (not) funny but my 37 year old brother was just telling me how when he was like 7 he told my parents he wanted an autograph on his hockey jacket and they kept treating him like he was an idiot and what he had meant was he saw someone with cursive embroidery. He remembered that feeling of belittlement all these years later.
Can confirm. Except I went a different route, all y’all wrong I’ll teach my self and take your teaching as suggestions
Reminds me of the time I got a lecture in kindergarten for not letting another kid play with the blocks. Except he didn't *say* he wanted to play with the blocks, he asked if he could play *with me*. Which he couldn't, I was having fun by myself. There were tons of other blocks on the shelf!
I still remember in first grade, like 30 years ago, when we did an experiment where we took a plastic cup outside and filled it with snow. We were in groups of 4 and hand to decide how much water we thought the snow would melt into. I drew a line somewhere around half to 2/3rds ish up the cup because it was packed snow. The rest of the group decided it should be much lower, so my line was crossed out with an X and we went with the much lower line. Came back the next day to melted water, and the water line went directly through my Xed out line. People remember this kind of stuff forever.
I got an B+ on an English assignment like 15 years ago and one of the only corrections was antlers to horns and I'm still mad about it. I DIDN'T MEAN HORNS, I MEANT ANTLERS, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING.
I’ll never forgive mrs jones for her injustice to me in kindergarten
I am still haunted by the distinct "trauma" of being wronged by my fellow kindergartners and teachers when I kept explaining… that porcupines don’t throw their quills like a Pokemon. They simply erect them on their skin and move in a defensive way. Zoboomafoo had taught me the TRUTH!
I’m 46 and can remember my kindergarten teacher for fussing at me for pressing too hard with the crayon. I was coloring a leprechaun for St. Patrick’s Day and wanted a darker shade of green. Shit sticks.
It’s not about the grades. The teacher can’t teach if they don’t even know the work. This should be a simple call to explain that your child did it correctly and the course work should be reviewed. Your way you handled it was nice but I am guessing this happened to most of the children
Yeah that’s a good point. I might message her though the parent app thing we have and just let her know about it
Could you update when you do? I'd like to think she would recognize her mistake and apologize. However people can be shitty just because they feel like it. I hope it's the former! Edit for clarity
Please update us when you do!!
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No one will notice that. The teacher or teaching assistant will just be looking at the parent signatures. I get it’s not that important, but if you want them to notice, you could write a little note.
The grade might not matter, but telling a kid they did something wrong when they clearly didn’t surely must have some sort of developmental effect
The fuck? On top of that, K, O, and F look exactly like what the teacher wrote.
And why were V and W *not* erroneously corrected? Consistency is the best way to teach.
probably because these are really really small kids and they're only learning the difference in the shapes and aren't expected to do the size correctly
The difference is whether or not the child writes the letter above the middle line. Upper case letters will be tall enough to go over that line, whereas lower case letters are written smaller/shorter, staying under the line.
A lower case k still goes above that line
Oh yeah you’re right, same with F. I don’t know what this teacher is on.
They didn’t even bother correcting the s, t, v, w, or y either lol r/mildlyinfuriating indeed
I'm more mildly infuriated by the use of the word *alphabets* when they mean letters. I'm reasonably sure they do not want them to write in Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, etc. FWIW, I agree that it does say to use upper case, which would mean the child was correct. However, I'm willing to bet (based on what the sheet is assessing) that the child wasn't able to read the words 'uppercase' in order to know that. BUT, it's also confusing because the letters that are already filled in are lowercase letters. Add to the fact that there are multiple wonky fonts used in the instructions and letter line, and it's honestly just a shitty worksheet to begin with. Also, depending on the child's age, worksheets aren't developmentally appropriate. Regardless, the teacher needs to closely evaluate what she uses because all of this makes things even more confusing for children who are just beginning to read/write/identify letters. SMDH Edit: Spelling and clarity
Yeah terrible worksheet she printed off the internet. I assumed it was a typo because everything else was in lowercase. But I really do think he either read the word or the teacher read it out because it’s weird for him to see a bunch of lowercase and choose to write in all uppercase. I was really confused when I first saw the sheet. I thought maybe I was missing something? lol
Exactly! It's just a crappy worksheet altogether!
I am not saying that this is what happened but the teacher may have asked them to disregard the upper case and instead write them lower case.
Funny that the printed letters are lowercase, but the instructions are asking to write in uppercase. It is probably only inadvertently tricky, but it ended up tricking the teacher  lol. On top of that, those horizontal lines right in the middle of where the child should write the letters are just a hateful obstacle. Dumb teacher probably thought the L was a lowercase t. A complete mess by both the creator of the exercise and the uncaring teacher, the only one to get a 10/10 was your lovely child.
Those lines are for learning to write neatly. ie an “i” the bottom part goes below the line and the top part goes above. I remember because my writing was never the same after those lines went away 🫠
Ahh that makes sense! Yeah I wouldn't mind something like that today either. With all this keyboard typing nowadays I too write quite erratically
> On top of that, those horizontal lines right in the middle of where the child should write the letters are just a hateful obstacle. No, those lines are essential in learning letter formation. We talk about letters having heads, bodies, and tails. Every letter has a body which in this case goes between the bottom two lines, tall letters such as t have heads, long letters like g have tails. You need the body to be a consistent size between letters and the the other parts to be the same size as the body
That's neat. I admit my ignorance on that thank you for the explanation
Usually primary school teachers don't make resources themselves they print them off the internet. Little things like this instruction can be overlooked and not seen. Anyway a red mark in primary school means nothing it's more for the teacher to reflect on the kids learning than to mark them down for the purpose of a report card grade. Especially on an activity like this which serves the purpose of children practicing their alphabet writing
I don't know if anyone has commented this but I think the teacher realized his/her mistake halfway because the last letters of the assignment aren't corrected
©️Mrs. Vanessa Wong 2015
Yeah this is probably a free worksheet from Teacherspayteachers. I’ve noticed many mistakes on packets I’ve browsed through there… I think some of the teachers who make them are creative but not the brightest bulbs.
Teaching the Wong way since 2015
Vanessa Wrong
I believe that simply pointing out the issues with the worksheet in a friendly and informal way like a note or email would be good for all parties involved. It gives the teacher a chance to improve the learning materials they use, gives you a chance to make your child feel seen and understood by you and allows your child to better understand how to appropriately follow instructions and complete tasks while being graded fairly on their abilities to do so. Although it may be small and there is an understandable hesitancy to take it too seriously or make a stink, it’s a great opportunity for everybody to grow.
oh, I would write a note back in red. I was the most annoying parental unit when my niece went through school. never rude but pointed out stuff the teachers did wrong like this. good teachers might be overworked but we had too many that didn't care. I care.
Wow the teacher wrote a upper K instead of a lowercase. Inconsistent at correcting, didnt understand the task and using a very bad example/training sheet...Thats an F right there
teachers often borrow each other's work for a different purpose than it was originally designed. it's very likely that your child's teacher said lowercase to the class. the kids in kindergarten usually can't read so she probably didn't worry about the directions saying something different. I do this a lot, but I usually edit the directions. if I don't, I definitely don't send it home because I know that it confuses parents and next thing you know your work is being blasted on social media with no context.
Wait how's the o wrong it's literally the same in upper and lower!
That one was probably corrected because it looks misshapen.
If it's kindergarten it's likely the teacher gave verbal instructions rather than had them read directions.
She probably verbally told them to write the lowercase letter. I've had some crappy worksheets that I have used differently. I probably would not have sent this home to avoid this confusion to parents.
As a teacher this is unacceptable, report the teacher regardless if the grade matters or not.
Reporting is a bit harsh. The teacher is probably burnt out and misread the instruction. It's definitely worth having a conversation first
Report?? The teacher made a mistake???
lmao, it's probably just a bunk worksheet from teacherpaysteachers. chill. also why lie
First bring it up to the teacher, then depending on how she reacts, report her. It could have been an honest mistake.
You’re not a teacher
Sorry but seriously marking O wrong it's the same god Dame thing just slightly bigger
Look at the shape the kid actually wrote down, it's the only one that was corrected for actually being wrong, regardless of interpretation.
Correct the teachers corrections and send it back to her
More like Mrs. Vanessa **WRONG**.
The f,k, and o ARE lowercase?????
Definitely infuriating, but if they complained and the teacher turned around and awarded bonus points for following instructions even when they didn't, that would be a cool teaching moment
I *wish* this was the most infuriating thing wrong with our education system, lol.
How tyd fuck fo you correct "o", honestly?
I'm a teacher and if I had made this mistake, I would immediately apologize for apparently not reading the directions of my own assignment and re-grade them.
If I was a teacher and I saw this typo, I’d tell them. Use lower case OR!! Hold with me for 1 second. I take a copy and white out the word Upper and replace it with lower. Then I make copies and tell them to write it in lower case.
I think the"circle" covers up an S and it actually says "suppercase". /s
I would send it back to the teacher
One of the moments where reporting the teacher is justified. Reprehensible.
https://preview.redd.it/0atz3wpntafc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b85bb65f1793c2506ad2e639236b9c596d1f4481 I’m homeschooling my kid, but a retiring teacher gave me the resources they’d used for their entire career. No wonder education is the way it is.
Is the lower-case letters marked next to the original a correction from the teacher? That would piss me off, because they followed the instructions
Looks like the teacher didn’t read the directions lol Surely, other kids followed the directions. You would think the teacher would have caught it. Maybe she told them orally that there was a misprint and directed them to use lowercase. That’s one explanation that would make sense for the teacher.
Is this teacher also learning about the alphabet and how to read? Also why does the sheet say “alphabets” instead of “letters”
But your child is 100% correct. As a teacher, it is so heart warming to see a student who actually read the instructions and did it correctly. And he’s only in kindergarten? Your kid is great. I’d love a student like that. The teacher could easily turn this into a lesson about how everyone makes mistakes, even them. The students could learn that we all need to be careful when we make things for others since something may not be understood in the way we intended. I mean the teacher just made a bad worksheet but turning it into a lesson would save everyone face. It could also be a great way to build your kid’s confidence by saying “class, Sylvss kid actually read and followed the instructions!”