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Sign outside Lakewood High School.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- This leap fell a bit short.
A St. Petersburg high school sign promoting a recent literacy event for parents apparently wasn't spell-checked, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
The sign outside Lakewood High School may have read "Laeping to Literacy Night 6:30 PM" in big black letters, but the blunder had school officials red in the face.
"This was just an accident. It's every principal's fear," Lakewood principal Robert Vicari told the Times. "I sure hope that sign doesn't end up on Jay Leno."
Read NBCMiami.com's story on school 'Laeping to Literacy'
The sign went up Friday to promote the school's literacy night for parents on Wednesday, the extra day of the leap year.
Lakewood's literacy coach, Patricia Schley, had organized the event to show parents how to help their teens become better readers. Unfortunately, Schley left the sign work to school custodian Austin Simmons.
Simmons had endured a long week and was fighting the bright sun when the sign went up. His motorcycle had broken down and he'd just gotten a call that he'd need $1,200 to fix it.
The flub wasn't found until Sunday, when Schley saw the sign as she was leaving church.
"I'm the literacy coach," she said. "Of course that reflects on me."
By the time it was fixed Monday, the sign was making the rounds on students' Facebook pages. Schley said if nothing else, she was happy the students had noticed the mistake.
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My daughter checked out many colleges before settling on one. She was shocked to find that most of them had grammar and spelling mistakes in the literature they sent her. She did not attend one of the illiterate ones.
If anything the sign was noticed.
If I was an editor at msnbc I'm not sure I'd allow this story to run. How many articles have you read lately put on the internet by msnbc that were error free? I'm amazed at the number of errors in the stories they run here. I've always joked in online posting that spellcheck is for the day job, but they seem to have very little editing, which seems even worse in an age when most computer programs have spellcheck and grammar check.
I wonder how many never really noticed the mistake until told. Remember that little thing about reading a while back that your brain automatically corrects the misspellings so you can understand even though every word is spelled wrong.
Too phunny.
To err is humane ;)
Any wonder our kids can't spell?
public education..
It is from all the participation trophy Adults who believe everyone should get a trophy,and no one is a loser or winner even if they can not spell or add,just pass them call it social promotion.
das 2 phuny hom
I used to have a key chain that was supposed to go out at the local elementary school - but had been caught before it was distributed - it was in the shape of a hammer and it read "XXXXX Police Department - Drive Hammered, Get Nailed"
peepole r stoopid