On Monday, I checked my fourth grader’s homework assignment notebook. His Wednesday column was marked by a single word, “CHILL.”
“Why did you write CHILL here?” I asked.
He looked at it, “I don’t know. I didn’t write that.”
“It’s in your handwriting.” His very sloppy handwriting is quite identifiable.
“But I didn’t write it.”
The school had standardized testing Thursday and Friday, so I thought that maybe “CHILL” meant they had no homework for the rest of the week. Makes sense, right?
“No other tests this week?” I asked just to be sure.
“Nope.”
On Wednesday, he climbed into the car clearly mad at me. “It didn’t say CHILL. It said, chapter 11. I had a math test today on chapter 11! If you hadn’t said…”
“CH.11”
Not “CHILL”.
A lesson on why good handwriting is important.
jennswondering 
Ha ha. Reminds me if the time I, a teacher, was checking a students agenda book. For math, he wrote Workshit. I laughed and then took a picture of it. A lesson on why good spelling is important!