It's an ou, not just an o

Yesterday Liam came home with his spelling words and one of them was favourite. He had written it down as favorite and I said to him that he had missed the u.

"I wrote down exactly what was on the board."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is my biggest pet peeve, Canadian teachers who can not spell words the Canadian way. Would it kill them to take .000001 seconds to add a u to the word? I shouldn't think that the little bit of added labour would harm them.

I asked Taylor's Grade 2 teacher (oh, so many years ago!) why they seemed to flip flop between o and ou. She said that a lot of their computer programs came from the States and therefore used only the o. My feeling is that when you are writing the words out on the whiteboard you should use the ou and point out that there are two spellings, but that in Canada we favour the ou version.

Seriously, is it that difficult?