You must be careful with the English being taught in the schools. The teachers themselves do not (were never taught properly) speak or know proper English themselves. My daughter was always coming home telling us how her English teacher was always mispronouncing and misspelling words. I told her that as long as they didn't expect her to say the words like they were, then just to let it go. I do recall a trip we had to make to the school to discuss a spelling test with the English teacher, which ended up with her apologizing to my very-well-English-speaking Filipino husband. They were teaching misspellings of some words that we could not accept or overlook, and my daughter was missing them on the tests. Just read over your child's homework and do your due diligence.