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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 02:26 PM Dec 2014

Misspelled sign may have cost high school principal her job

http://news.yahoo.com/misspelled-sign-paterson-nj-school-principal-141949588.html

A principal has been reassigned after a misspelled sign was displayed for more than a week outside a New Jersey public high school.

The message on the sign above the entryway to Paterson’s 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.”




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Misspelled sign may have cost high school principal her job (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2014 OP
I just read a news story that someone was given the "Last Rights" by a priest. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #1
A great president once asked "Is our children learning?" rurallib Dec 2014 #2
Apparently... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #3
OMG, I truly laughed out loud on that one...n/t monmouth4 Dec 2014 #5
Please step to the curb while the irony police whistler162 Dec 2014 #7
Gads again. 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #11
I am sorry but avebury Dec 2014 #18
I need to remember to hit... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #19
A not so great president, actually. Enthusiast Dec 2014 #8
If they had a budget, then that should have been the job of the maintenance staff. Joe Shlabotnik Dec 2014 #4
It doesn't seem like she should be HappyMe Dec 2014 #6
Some years ago madamesilverspurs Dec 2014 #9
What! Not a single penis joke in this thread yet? Reter Dec 2014 #10
Dic(k)ember? KamaAina Dec 2014 #12
When does "PM" occur?? lastlib Dec 2014 #13
Anbody remember cwydro Dec 2014 #14
... orleans Dec 2014 #15
To be fair, LWolf Dec 2014 #16
the 18th was the last episode of the Colbert Report. uncle ray Dec 2014 #17
I'd give her a pass on "Dicember" ... eppur_se_muova Dec 2014 #20
sweet... lame54 Dec 2014 #23
I can't believe narnian60 Dec 2014 #21
She should be fired... lame54 Dec 2014 #22

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
1. I just read a news story that someone was given the "Last Rights" by a priest.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 02:47 PM
Dec 2014

NBC Los Angeles, no less.

3catwoman3

(24,007 posts)
3. Apparently...
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:04 AM
Dec 2014

...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!

avebury

(10,952 posts)
18. I am sorry but
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 12:35 PM
Dec 2014


I will confess that my typing skills have, on more then one occasion gotten into the way of my words.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
4. If they had a budget, then that should have been the job of the maintenance staff.
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:14 AM
Dec 2014

Did someone hold the ladder as per OSHA regulations while she set the letters? Maybe she shouldn't have been tasked with that.

madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)
9. Some years ago
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:39 PM
Dec 2014

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.

lastlib

(23,248 posts)
13. When does "PM" occur??
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 09:57 PM
Dec 2014

apparently, after 1:00, but that doesn't narrow it down much.......

( I'm confoozed.........)

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
16. To be fair,
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 09:22 AM
Dec 2014

the administrator probably didn't climb the ladder to set the type herself.

She probably should have noticed it when done, though.

narnian60

(3,510 posts)
21. I can't believe
Mon Dec 22, 2014, 06:04 AM
Dec 2014

that no other teacher, faculty member, parent, or student noticed it for a whole week even if it was an entrance not used frequently.

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