Monday, November 05, 2007

it is very cutt


Cari saw this (among other winners) on a school bulletin board. The quotes might be mildly permissible if the teacher was maintaining a student's original spelling. I mean, in terms of our criteria. Pedagogically, though, that's no way to reinforce the correct spelling.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey bethany, i'm sending you a great pic from mc donalds.. you have got to see this "amazing" thing!

Anonymous said...

I hope that was not a teacher... maybe the cafeteria lady? Winer and Cuttest? Wow. I will not be sending my kids to public school.

Allison Horner said...

Wow, that's scary. I hope that wasn't the teacher's spelling....

Anonymous said...

Maybe it's the cut test, like a test to tell how well the students can cut things.

Bob K said...

It also depends on where the bulletin board is - if this is posted in a teacher's lounge, for example, the quotes might indeed be used properly and the pedagogical issues would not apply.

On the other hand, it might just be a mistake and worthy of being snarked at.

Anonymous said...

Ew, if they were maintaining the student's original spelling, "winer" should have been in quotes as well. I really, really hope that wasn't a teacher writing that. Ugh.

Anonymous said...

Even if you find a way to justify "cuttest".... winer? No.

Anonymous said...

What prize did this person "wine"?

Unknown said...

Maybe it was a para or an aide or even a parent volunteer. I just can't see a teacher doing that. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong, but it wouldn't happen at our school.

James Gilmore said...

It's entirely possible that this school is in the Napa Valley, and the figure in the picture is a very oddly-cut grape. Thus, it would indeed be done by the "Winer of the 'cuttest.'"

Anonymous said...

Cuttest. It's a jack o' lantern. You get a pumpkin and cut it. See?

Anonymous said...

Sadly, teachers do spell this poorly. I was in a Masters program with quite a few K-12 teachers and corporate educators, and we had to post on a discussion board regularly. The K-12 teachers were some of the worst spellers in the group.

Anonymous said...

this whole thing made me laugh, but jimmy really got me going. he's the winer.