This Is Why I Want To Be A Teacher

I am truly disturbed and amazed at the grammar and spelling of my classmates this semester. The majority of these people are my age and aspire to be teachers, doctors, and business owners. A lot of them are currently employed, and frankly, I don't know who's hiring these people if they write and talk at work the same way they write in class. Take for instance this post about speaker anxiety by Sarah, who teaches the 4 year olds at a preschool:

"My bigest problem when I give a presentation is that I get too nervous and think that I am not going to make any sense at all! I start to get all shaky and my voice does too, I start to studder my words and the worst part is that  my mind goes blank at points and forget what was I going to say next! So what ends up happend is that I start to talk to fast and and want to just get it over with that I feel at the end that I did not delivered my points good! Maybe I leaft information out and it made my presentation make no sense!!! I think just thinking about the anxiety I am going to get makes me get all worked up about it and get more nervous!!!.. I think what I am going to do is try my bestest to calm down and practice several times to slow my self down and be relax. The one thing I know helps alot is that since we are put in small groups of people to give out our speeches that makes me feel alot  more constable knowing is not a lot of people there and aslo know that I am not the only one feeling the anxiety! SO good luck to all of us feeling the anxiety I know we can do this!!!!"

I am not making this up. Even Blondie knows that "bestest" is not a real word. This, from a woman who is teaching the four year olds of our nation how to read and write. I stopped counting the spelling and grammar errors after the second sentence. This is only one post, too. The five other posts I read from other students are about the same quality. Disturbing.

And now, i'm going to go put my pajamas on so I can be more "constable".

Comments

[May]

Ironic that this video popped up on my Google Reader right after I read your post; thought you'd enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xuFnP5N2uA&feature=player_embedded

[mimi]

I'm glad she is feeling more constable.

[Lindsey]

ughhhhh... stuff like that drives me bananas... Jess gives me a hard time for misspelling words & stuff when I type on FB, but there is a difference between idiocy & silliness...

[Allison]

Oh my! Scary indeed! I cannot stand it when someone has bad spelling and grammar! Worse yet when they are a teacher.