Best Email on the Wisdom of Allowing Oregon Students to Use Spell Check on State Tests

September 7, 2010

The State Board of Education (Thanks Susan Castillo!) says 7th graders and high schoolers will be able to use spell check on the state writing tests. We told you about this last week when the story broke. Here’s the best email on the issue:

Hi Victoria,

I am blown away that out public schools continue to dumb down our children. I have 3 examples of why students should not be allowed to use spell check on state testing.

1. I had a young man who was hired to be an sales associate for my company. In an email to one of our corporate partners he meant to apologize for his incompetence, however because he did not know how to spell incompetence he just picked the first word that popped up on spell check. So he sent an email to corporate that said; ” I apologize for my incontinence.” By the way he was let go shortly after this.

2. I hired an older woman who could not spell a lick so I told her that she must use spell check each and every time she sent an email or made a note in someone’s account. I finally let her go when she made notes in someone’s account and there were so many misspelled words I emailed her asking if she had used spell check. Her reply; “yes I used spell chick.”

3. Just today I received 2 separate emails from my boss and both of them had several misspelled words. It makes him look like an idiot. (I was pretty sure of this fact already, but now I have confirmation!)

**This is why my kids go to private school!!

Thank you,

Lisa

And the best poem about it?

Eye halve a spelling chequer

I have a spelling checker.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when I rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen
eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore a veiling checker’s Hour
spelling mite decline,
And if we’re lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flair,
Their are no fault’s with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a ware.

Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word’s fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw’s are knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting too pleas.

— Sauce Unknown

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Best Email on the Wisdom of Allowing Oregon Students to Use Spell Check on State Tests

September 7, 2010

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