Edumacation

I can remember my parents complaining about the less than wonderful education they thought we were getting at times. One thing being that we didn't ever really have a penmanship class. I mean, they taught us cursive and all, but there wasn't ever really a class to improve our writing like there was when my parents were in school. My thing was always that they had writing classes, but look at my dad's writing. It's comparable to that of a serial killer. Seriously. Few people can read my dad's writing. My mom has beautiful writing. She chalks it up to the fact that her writing teacher once told her that her writing was awful.

I now have similar feelings about Addison's education. I DO feel she is being taught well. She excels at Math and Reading and does above average in all other classes (with the exception of PE) as well. However, last week they were studying Dr Seuss. I LOVE Dr. Seuss!!! His birthday is shared with my mom, yet another reason to love him! LOL! The thing is, she brought home these little doorknob hanger things they colored at some point in the week. The saying on one says something to the effect of "Come in, come play, with me and the Cat In the Hat today". Ok.... may not look bad to any of you. But I have OCD about this one thing, thanks to my Kindergarten teacher, Mrs Hibbs (to this day my favorite teacher of all my years in school) and my mother. I read something like this and think, "Don't say 'me and....', it sounds like you are saying the person is mean". Am I the only one that remembers these things? It should, according to what I was taught as a child, read, "With the Cat In the Hat and me today". Uggghhhh..... no wonder I keep having to tell my kids over and over and over, "So and so and me, not me and so and so." I believe that Aunt J said something to the effect in a comment on one of OM's posts about the fact that the things she tried over and over to teach her children was never "right" until a teacher told them. Well, in this case, it seems as though the teachers aren't even telling them this.

Am I wrong to be irritated by such a thing?