An essential requirement for any teaching position is that you have to know what you’re talking about. In other words, a schoolteacher shouldn’t be giving out incorrect information, as a New York parent unfortunately discovered about their daughter’s English teacher. In an assignment about finding suitable adverbs to fit in sentences, the teacher corrected the daughter’s work, claiming that she should have capitalized the first letter of the adverbs she chose, in the middle of a sentence.
Anyone who’s ever learned English will know that capitalization has specific rules, such as for proper nouns, the pronoun I, or the first word in a sentence. Adverbs appearing in the middle of a sentence should not be capitalized, and it would seem that the English teacher in this story doesn’t know this. That, or it was a specific direction, or the teacher had a “brain fart.” Still, the daughter’s parent and thousands of users on Reddit found the mistake to be more than mildly infuriating.
“Yeah that’s annoying. Even more annoying if your kid starts capitalizing random words in the middle of her sentences when she grows up😭,” groans one commenter. “This Would Indeed Be Extremely Infuriating,” joked another. “I think the teacher needs to go to school again,” said a third. The parent updated the post with a comment, adding a photo of the teacher’s writing: “Check spelling & capitals.” “Ok this comment on her other assignment makes everything even better!” they remarked sarcastically. A few people tried to defend the teacher regarding any specifics left out, but the fact still remains: you don’t capitalize random words in the middle of sentences.
“Like in every profession, there’s always a pompous one that thinks that just because they are the ‘professional,'” it makes them right. Embarrassing,” says a Redditor. A few other commenters chimed in with stories of teachers who also were ‘too proud’ to admit a mistake and still taught incorrect information. Hopefully, this particular English teacher will be informed of their incorrect assumption of ‘correct capitalization’ and start teaching things the right way.
