A mom from Harrisonburg, Virginia took to Facebook to share her son's spelling test. Overshare? It seems that Cate Nelson's motives for spilling Lucian's results across the social media network had little to do with shaming her 7-year-old son. Instead, she wanted to point out the teacher's mistake.
The results speak for themselves. First, we can all agree that educating young minds is one of the toughest jobs there is, and second, we all live in a ridiculously time-starved age. Still, you kind of expect a teacher to be able to spell at that level before correcting the work of a second grader.
While Nelson admit that her son's handwriting is a sore spot overall, she remained pretty good-humoured about the incident.
Rather than confront and admonish the teacher (for admonishing her son), Nelson seized a teaching opportunity of her own. When Lucian caught his teacher's mistake, his mom sat him down and talked about "how even teachers are wrong sometimes." Fair play to her.
How would you have handled this situation? Ever had to call a teacher up on their mistakes?
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