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Misspelled sign may have cost high school principal her job
yahoo.com ^ | December 18, 2014 | Dylan Stableford

Posted on 12/18/2014 1:51:48 PM PST by grundle

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.

After the gaffe was picked up by several local news outlets, Antoinette Young, the school's principal, was reassigned as a vice principal at a different school.

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To: mmichaels1970
"If it were a suburban neighborhood, parents would be outraged."
No they wouldn't. They'd laugh.

They would assume it was a prank or a joke, because they would assume that the school administration was, at base, literate. The sad thing is that such a sign on an inner-city school is not assumed to be a prank or a joke, because an assumption of literacy cannot be made.

21 posted on 12/18/2014 2:11:29 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: grundle; GeronL
THIS IS ‘ARE’ STORY: A Prom Proves Chicago Teachers Could Be As Dumb As Their Kids
Northwestern's School of Journalism misspells own name on diplomas
22 posted on 12/18/2014 2:11:43 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Looks like the sign was done by one of the skool’s stoodints.


23 posted on 12/18/2014 2:11:46 PM PST by Sasparilla
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To: Alex Murphy
Northwestern's School of Journalism misspells own name on diplomas

Wasn't there a year where the Midshipmen received degrees printed as "Navel Academy," or is that an urban legend?

24 posted on 12/18/2014 2:12:52 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: grundle

Spelling is racis…..


25 posted on 12/18/2014 2:14:14 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: grundle

Any pictures of the principal?


26 posted on 12/18/2014 2:15:19 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: grundle

I thought the word “public” would have been spelled without the “L”


27 posted on 12/18/2014 2:16:36 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: grundle

P. S. 20 holding pen!


28 posted on 12/18/2014 2:16:40 PM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Responsibility2nd
Regardless - the principal had the duty to know it was wrong from the get go and should have told Pedro to do it again.

What? And have her career ruined with a charge of racism and bigotry rather than a mere reassignment?

29 posted on 12/18/2014 2:19:02 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

‘Antoinette’ is all the picture you need.


30 posted on 12/18/2014 2:23:38 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: grundle

Hooked in Phoenix.


31 posted on 12/18/2014 2:24:01 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Responsibility2nd

huh...your post may have been racist, but I am still trying to figure out how...


32 posted on 12/18/2014 2:26:45 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Delta Dawn

huh...your post may have been racist, but I am still trying to figure out how...

____________________________________________

I’ll make it easy for you. I’m a white male.

Automatically racist by birth.


33 posted on 12/18/2014 2:31:14 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: rhubarbk
Affirmative Action rears it’s head . . .

Found her on linkedin.
Obama daughter. You're right.

34 posted on 12/18/2014 2:31:22 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: rhubarbk
While on the subject of spelling and grammar:


35 posted on 12/18/2014 2:33:34 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: grundle

Usually the Janitor does the signs, where I went to school......


36 posted on 12/18/2014 2:34:52 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: grundle

LOL and shaking my head.


37 posted on 12/18/2014 2:41:38 PM PST by Gator113 (Cruz, Lee, and Sessions speak for me.... most anyone else is just noise.)
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To: Osage Orange

I’m here to tell you it ain’t any better in the public sector. In some ways it’s worse, with civil service rules. The public agencies at some level actually seem to celebrate mediocrity as their raison d’etre.

Cc


38 posted on 12/18/2014 3:11:29 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline Constructon zone- low humor ahead)
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To: grundle

Common Core ... close is good enough


39 posted on 12/18/2014 3:15:05 PM PST by crusadersoldier
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To: Celtic Conservative
I'm in the public sector....I know what it's like. Ha!!

Thanks!!

40 posted on 12/18/2014 3:15:36 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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