The brute memorization of a list of spellings that require an < -es > variant is both inelegant (no need to duplicate <z> and <zz>, for example) and incomplete.
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Just some more evidence that the Facebook groups and their understanding is really neither here nor there.
"Okay, first, I hate to be a Marian the Librarian, but you don’t feel badly, you feel bad." ~John Oliver
This particular mistaken teacher is not the first person to be mistaken about these words, but here she is, passing her mistake along unchecked to her kiddos.
With all due respect to Elizabeth Elstob, "that Mistake is justly exploded."