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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on December 21, 2014, 02:45:27 PM
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Thu Dec 18, 2014, 01:26 PM
KamaAina (56,555 posts)
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.â€
(http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-12-18/a09bfe80-86c3-11e4-a002-2dcebeeb6e40_B5AlupWCAAMHEuW.jpg)
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 01:47 PM
Star Member dixiegrrrrl (38,663 posts)
1. I just read a news story that someone was given the "Last Rights" by a priest.
NBC Los Angeles, no less.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 09:10 PM
Star Member rurallib (36,649 posts)
2. A great president once asked "Is our children learning?"
probably not revelant or something.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:04 PM
Star Member 3catwoman3 (1,693 posts)
3. Apparently...
...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!
Shit, you can't make this stuff up. :popcorn:
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 12:03 PM
Star Member whistler162 (7,257 posts)
7. Please step to the curb while the irony police
write this one up - "my sons' elementy"
:rotf:
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 11:02 PM
Star Member 3catwoman3 (1,693 posts)
11. Gads again.
I just noticed that. I can spell, but I can't type worth a damn.
Sure.
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:14 PM
Joe Shlabotnik (4,174 posts)
4. If they had a budget, then that should have been the job of the maintenance staff.
Did someone hold the ladder as per OSHA regulations while she set the letters? Maybe she shouldn't have been tasked with that.
This primitive's solution to a crappy government goon is more funding, and to hire another crappy government goon.
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 08:52 AM
HappyMe (18,116 posts)
6. It doesn't seem like she should be
tasked with anything that has to do with educating kids.
Of course. But that doesn't mean we have to take her off the payroll, right? Right??
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 07:39 PM
Star Member madamesilverspurs (8,440 posts)
9. Some years ago
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.
By all means, show your friend's kids this page, and let them make a fortune: http://reportingsandiego.com/author/nadinabbott/
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Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:04 PM
Star Member 3catwoman3 (1,693 posts)
3. Apparently...
...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!
Probably just a typo, but then there's this...
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 11:02 PM
Star Member 3catwoman3 (1,693 posts)
11. Gads again.
I just noticed that. I can spell, but I can't type worth a damn.
Proofreading doesn't seem to be a strong point either.
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(http://s16.postimg.org/dvbd0wsrp/279645458083657825_vjh7fdd_Z_c.jpg)
There, their, they're, little tdykes, you have more problems with the English language than just spelling. :rotf:
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I take it as a point of personal pride to proofread not only my posts here (not always the best), but all of my emails, and texts. I do not spk txt at all. So, my texts are in the American version of the Queen's English--and I proofread those, too.
If someone else doesn't want to do said things, that's their problem--not mine.
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Whale, wad ewe no, DUmmies con knot spill carp.
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Whale, wad ewe no, DUmmies con knot spill carp.
Whale waddle? Did someone call HAMber's name?