Just some more evidence that the Facebook groups and their understanding is really neither here nor there.
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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.
Remember kids, you cannot understand the system from looking at single words. You must look at words in their families in order to understand the system, every single time. Always. Without fail.
Here's why Melvyn Ramsden's "Real Spelling" argument is just plain wrong:
A couple of years ago, I had to disabuse the ginormous Facebook SWI groups of their belief that that -s in besides and perhaps was marking a plural in words like besides, towards, afterwards, or perhaps after no one bothered to stop and figure out that there is no such thing as one *perhap.