A teacher in the UK is likely penning an angry letter to Microsoft about the shortcomings of spell check, after the homework he set for his Year 6 students went viral.

In an attempt to improve his students’ spelling skills, the teacher sent home a list of six words for his class to learn. Ironically, two of the six spelling words were spelt incorrectly, and the task itself was littered with errors. #oops

While in the good ‘ol days, mistakes like these might have been resolved with a phone call from an annoyed parent, the internet age isn’t quite so forgiving.

Twitter user Amanda shared her son’s homework on Twitter, and it has since been retweeted over 2,000 times.

I have to admit, not all the errors were obvious at first. For instance, the sentence, “I will be sending home six words from the recommended spelling test which I will then pick up in class the following work”, should definitely end “following week“, but the words are similar enough that it takes you a few times to pick up the error.

But ‘Immediateley’? And ‘Sincerley’? You really need to

immediately

pay attention to the red squiggly line that appears beneath certain words.

Sincerely

, me.

As usual, the people of the Internet took Amanda’s situation very seriously.

The use of Comic Sans is a travesty. Surely documents in an educational institution are always typed using Times New Roman.

While a number of Twitter users came out in support of Amanda, sharing their own experiences with their children's teachers, others accused her of editing the photo to shame the teacher. Also, quite offensively, many users automatically assumed that the teacher was a female.

Amanda, who uses the clever Twitter handle @Pandamoanimum (get it? Mum!), also addressed those accusing her of shaming the teacher, saying: 'I haven't shamed anyone as I have mentioned no names, the teacher or the school and, obviously, wouldn't name them on social media either'. In the couple of days since Amanda tweeted about the incident, her situation has been mostly, although not entirely, rectified.

On the plus side, the new homework task contains no spelling errors in the spelling list. But on the down side, it looks like the teacher has a bit of an issue bit of an issue with repetition repetition repetition repetition...

While Amanda has the right to be frustrated with her child's teacher, and we're sure she'll continue to pick up any errors that come home in his homework, there was an unfortunate consequence of her viral tweet.

It overshadowed another tweet she had posted the same day, that also had the potential to go viral:

What a shame.