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http://news.yahoo.com/misspelled-sign-paterson-nj-school-principal-141949588.htmlThe message on the sign above the entryway to Patersons Public School Number 20 included three mistakes: December was spelled "Dicember," report as "reepor" and a "1" was placed backwards.
The errors drew the ire of school Paterson Board of Education member Corey Teague, who saw a photo of the misspelled sign on Facebook....
"How can we expect our children to learn how to spell when the administration can't?" Teague wrote. "We must be held to a higher standard.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)NBC Los Angeles, no less.
rurallib
(62,423 posts)probably not revelant or something.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...they isn't.
On several occasions I returned school announcements to my sons' elementy and middle schools with misspeliings corrected in red.
Several years aog, my older son's 8th grade language arts teacher pronounced "poignant" just the way it was spelled - poyg-nant. Gads!
monmouth4
(9,708 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)write this one up - "my sons' elementy"
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)I just noticed that. I can spell, but I can't type worth a damn.
avebury
(10,952 posts)I will confess that my typing skills have, on more then one occasion gotten into the way of my words.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...spellcheck before I hit send.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)Did someone hold the ladder as per OSHA regulations while she set the letters? Maybe she shouldn't have been tasked with that.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)tasked with anything that has to do with educating kids.
madamesilverspurs
(15,805 posts)my friends got their kids into reading by paying them a nickel for each spelling or grammar error they found in the local newspaper. Homophones earned a dime.
Now those kids are grown and are teaching their own kids using the same method and the same pay rate. Happily for the kids but sadly for the state of our newspapers, their weekly pay is quite good.
Reter
(2,188 posts)What gives?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)That's gotta hurt!
lastlib
(23,248 posts)apparently, after 1:00, but that doesn't narrow it down much.......
( I'm confoozed.........)
cwydro
(51,308 posts)"Potatoe" ???
From the great Dan Quayle.
orleans
(34,060 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)the administrator probably didn't climb the ladder to set the type herself.
She probably should have noticed it when done, though.
uncle ray
(3,156 posts)perhaps someone's homage to Colbert.
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)after all, she may have run out of e's writing "reepor".
lame54
(35,294 posts)narnian60
(3,510 posts)that no other teacher, faculty member, parent, or student noticed it for a whole week even if it was an entrance not used frequently.
lame54
(35,294 posts)That sign might draw more teabaggers to the school