Or in this case, a "mulligian"?

What is hard to believe is that it took nine years for someone to notice the mistake and bring it to their attention. What does that say about how much people really paid attention to, or for that matter cared about the name change.

How dare they make such a horrific mistake. All parties involved should be fired. My goodness, this is just simply ridiculous!!!!! (sarcasm)

who cares... Jesus! Fix it and move on.

The mistake in the article could easily happen. I will give this Texas town an A for spelling "School" correctly. This is very petty.......

Figures it's a Texas school and we let those fools pick the text books for the entire country.

I'm shocked msnbc didnt misspell the misspelling.

This is Texass after-all. Where they've decided that religion and football is BIGGER and more important than an edumacation.

I recall that the Texass School Board is pushing for a pro-Christian & Pro-Creationism agenda in ALL textbooks that ALL the other 49 states also use. The Texass School system is the largest purchaser of public school textbooks and thus they control the information that every child reads. One state controlling what OUR children read is a joke and should stop. Our children are being ignored educationally by the GOP who think they know what best for everyone.

Here in my state of Arizona in the new $8.6 Billion Budget approved by Jan Brewer, there was a $50 Million increase in Prison spending for 500 new beds. And ONLY a $40 Million increase for public education. That is a telling story about the GOP.. It is happening all across America. Read the budgets. Incarceration pays the states more than educating the youth pays the state back. Its cheaper for the states to have a class of illiterates, uneducated and crawling with criminals, because the private prison industry makes a killing off the states and the taxpayers.

Texas doesn't pick text books for California. We have real education out here, including teaching kids about Thomas Jefferson and liberal thinking people like Martin Luther King. We also don't eliminate bad people from history. Our kids learn about Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin. How else will they recognize bad people if they have no historic perspective?

Sorry to t-off any Texans, but your text books eliminate people in history if they don't comply with Texas' political leanings. Just google "Texas textbooks".

Examples:

http://www.aolnews.com/2010/03/12/texas-removes-thomas-jefferson-from-teaching-standard/

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-03-18/opinion/czitrom.texas.textbooks_1_texas-board-history-textbook?_s=PM:OPINION

Plus this one if you think we take Texas' crap for truth:

http://gawker.com/5545341/vigilante-california-moves-against-right+wing-texas-textbooks

Texas doesn't pick text books for California. We have real education out here, including teaching kids about Thomas Jefferson and liberal thinking people like Martin Luther King

Dave, I wouldn't be too sure of that. Since Texas has one of the largest (maybe THE largest) group of textbook users in the country, the book companies use ITS curriculum and standards. California might supplement that, but I'll be you are using the same books there. Check into it a little further.

Here are two different articles for you. One is from Fox, the conservative viewpoint. The other from MSNBC, the more liberal viewpoint. But notice that BOTH stress the importance of Texas curriculum in textbooks.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/03/11/kelly-shackelford-texas-textbook-social-studies-standards-american-history/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35839979/ns/us_news-education/t/conservatives-put-stamp-texas-textbooks/

The grounds keeper said it best,

"I hadn't paid it any mind."

And neither will I.

This kind of stuff happens all of the time.

I live in a small historic town my great great uncles home is now a bed and breakfast. On the bed and breakfast website it tells the story of my uncle and his wife and the history behind the land and the home. In that story they misspelled my uncles wife's name. I contacted the owner and let her know that my uncles wife's name was Deann pronounced Dean and not Deanna. To this day it still Deanna. Oh well!

Devil's Son wrote

"Figures it's a Texas school and we let those fools pick the text books for the entire country."

My thoughts exactly!! Kinda explains a lot, doesn't it?

Beth,

Other states use Texas text books because of Texas' large market, which drives the cost down on their books so school districts in other states buy those books because they're cheaper. California has a text book market almost as large as Texas, so we don't have to import our books. Yes, there may be some conservative school districts here (yes, they exist) that buy the books intentionally, but we are not affected by the market like smaller states are. Maybe you should check into that further by reading the links I posted. I know because I have two Grandchildren in school here, both elementary and high school, and I check their books because of this issue.

"Strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel".

The genius of the liberal mind.

Texas is the anchor and ballast that allows the amoral liberals in the north to flutter about in the winds of humanistic subjectivism.

Not hard to understand why it took so long to notice. The mind plays tricks on you. The error was such that unless you were specifically looking for an error, your eyes would miss it since your brain tends to view words in sections or as a whole. Also, unless someone specifically knew that this teacher's name was not spelled with that "I" one wouldn't know and would assume that it was a different way of spelling it. As for the initial order - the person who made the initial error probably made some sort of typo. What it really speaks to is that care was not taken to ensure that no errors were made when making a submission.

Dave you check their books to make sure they're Democratically correct right? Same with most textbooks (even the ones here in Texas) Sorry y'all our children are stupid because we only teach them partial history not the whole thing. I mean look how many people think the civil war was only about slavery? Or that Lincoln freed the slaves because he was a nice guy and not because he wanted to "send them back" but was assassinated before he could implement it. Now I'll get hated on or collapsed by all the people who learned partial history. Have a great day.

Being from Fort Worth myself, I knew I shouldn't click on this article and subject myself to the anti-Texas hate, and many of you did not disappoint. However, my contempt for the FWISD prevents me from coming to their defense. I will certainly use this against their arrogant a**es.

I apologize for the rant. If any of you live here in FW, then you certainly understand.

The Fort Worth ISD isn't saying how much it will cost to fix all the mistakes but did say it was exhausting all resources to try and keep costs down.

Exhausting all resources is minimizing costs?

to try and keep

Shouldn't it be "to try to keep"?

The author of this article points out the poor "editing" done by the school and yet ignores editing of his own.

This reminds me of the road department that was repainting the roads, and the crew that was stenciling, wrote SPOT instead of STOP. It wasn't redone until 2 weeks later after a few phone calls.

Seems like an easy mistake to make. All it took was one initial misspelling and the rest follow suit. Do a Google search for "McMillian" and it will return almost 14 million hits. McMillian or McMillan? Who cares, besides McMillan.

AND I love how all the haters come out of the closet any time they see the word Texas. Geez people, get a life!

OK am I the only one who noticed that teacher Jouet Dotson said, "There's no 'i' in team & there's no 'i' in McMillan." Ah, teach, there is an 'i' in McMillan. There aren't 2 'i's but there is one 'i'. Perhaps you should get a different job. 'F' for fail all around.

I realize as some commented that McMillan is a name/proper noun and thus can be written various ways but since the woman was the principle as well as the 1st teacher there, you'd think they'd get it right. Add to that the fact that they're supposed to be honoring her - "Hey, we want to honor you but we're not going to take the time to make sure we spelled your name correctly."

B=895713 -- She said "there's no i at the END of McMillan." Not an F, but a D- perhaps???

b-895713

OK am I the only one who noticed that teacher Jouet Dotson said, "There's no 'i' in team & there's no 'i' in McMillan."

Hey knucklehead, try actually reading the words:

..."there is no 'i' in the last part of McMillan"

It's Texas. If the name has more than three letters, they will be lost.

Suggestion: Perhaps they should rename the school "Gun School"

I believe that the TX school board will now address this issue by forcing the textbook suppliers to change / alter their content to match the current spelling much like the religious and science contents.

I contacted the owner and let her know that my uncles wife's name was Deann pronounced Dean and not Deanna.

stull - the owner of the bed and breakfast probably learned to spell at the same school where you learned how to write the possessive form of a word. You don't seem to know the difference between plural (uncles) and possessive (uncle's). Don't complain about someone else's errors if you can't spell correctly yourself.

My comments are not about hating Texas. I was born in Texarkana and lived in Pasadena and Beaumont when I was young. This is about the fact that Texas ELIMINATES parts of history in which it doesn't agree politically. No, I don't check text books for being "democratically correct", what ever that means. I'm not even a democrat (there are more than two parties, in case you didn't know). California text books do not ELIMINATE parts of history. The conservatives are there as well as the liberals, and everyone else in between (which is most of them). Disagreement with policy is not HATE. Only a true hater would think that.

Have a good day.

Wow, you are the biggest bunch of Gomers ever on these gomer filled boards. How would anyone know the name was spelled wrong unless they actually knew the family? You do understand in your commincation addled state that the lady no longer teaches in the school district and may not have for years or even decades? Seriously, if I walked into the town I would just have to assume the person had an oddly spelled name. I don't live in Texas, I am not from Texas, and I have only visited it a couple of times. However, Texas is home to some of the most technically advanced organizations in the country as well as some our finer universities. Your smug superiority is misplaced and most likely incorrect since I rather doubt many of you are all that intelligent either......

Okay I gotta butt in, I have a few McMillian and a few more McMillan customers and yes, on a few occasions I have misspelled one or the others name, usually in an e-mail. Only one customer ever brought it up and she said it happens constantly and is a very normal mistake, I had been billing her for 6 months spelled wrong and she just never said anything bc she never really looked that close and its HER NAME!!! And she is an engineer, so come on folks, this was not a stupid thing, this was a who cares thing!!! They are even said the same way!!!

I'm not so judgmental about misspelling a proper noun-- as long as its not your own name. This is more a case of not paying attention to details.

Not paying attention? LOL.. This is a place for education. Where mistakes should be caught and corrected. Last time I checked, they still offer spelling classes in grade school.. Spelling correctly is part of the fundamentals. Now if they left the banner making to say, a 1st grader, then all is forgiven. But these are adults, and I assume it was someone other than an illegal janitor or cafeteria lady making the sign that works for the school, the very same school they couldn't spell correctly! Fact check..

Boy, frees is really taking this seriously. It's a proper noun, a mistake that anyone could have made. Taking that long to fix is another story. But he sounds like he's about to have a stroke. Now what does "Now if they left THEY banner making.." mean?

I told my kid's old school they had a misspelling in their school sign. The receptionist got all touchy about it, accusing me of having too much time on my hands. I told her it wasn't a matter of time when the spelling error was on the sign right out in front of the school where everyone could see it every day they took a child to school. Personally I feel if a school wants to call itself "excelling" they should at least spell it correctly. Makes the claim a lot more reliable.

Not really, just a mistake that even arrogant liberals make everyday.

After all, you came from mud and monkeys, right?

Herald9,

Actually, your point of view states that we came from mud (dust from the ground...)

No one's saying we evolved from monkeys. Monkeys are our evolutionary cousins. We share a common ancestor that lived 7 million years ago and slowly evolved into monkeys, apes, neanderthals and humans based on environmental needs. You can look up the fossil records if you'd like, they're very interesting.

We witness evolution every year. The more basic the organism, the more quickly it can evolve. Why do you think there's a new strain of flu virus every year? It adapts. It changes. It evolves.

You spelled brightest wrong. If I were you, I would not poke fun at others.

It doesn't get any better than when a person makes a sarcastic comment about someone else's shortcomings and then misspells 25% of their owns words. It makes me smile. Thanks workin hard

misspelling a proper noun

I can accept propr nouns having different spellings. But didn't anybody review the sign before the "unveiling"? Weren't ANY family members present for the dedication and notice their name was WRONG?

workin hard,

"Our best and brighteist . . ."

And these are the very same people who are supposed to be teaching our children how to spell! Next maybe they'll discover it should have been MacMillan rather than McMillan. :)

I suggest those wanting to ridicule the school should check their own posts for correct spelling and grammar usage. (I'm looking at you, workin hard and 420)

However, I agree. Someone should have been paying attention and checking for errors with the sign.

Yu get a good edikation at publik skuls.

Nick, Mickey, Liz

I was just having a little fun. Take a deep cleansing breath, please, and pour yourself a cold one. If it makes you feel better, I have a masters degree in electrical engineering and, yes, I did win the spelling bee when I was a kid . . . .

Texas is an awesome place to live. Please stay where you are.

They need lower taxes.

"Don't mess with Texas"

It amazes me that at the top of my screen, in internet explorer, the page header is titled "U.S. NEWS - 'F' IS FOR 'FAIL' TEXAS SCHOOL MISSPELLS ITS OWN NAME". Is this seriously the best effing thing MSNBC can find in the entire U.S. to take the time and write an article on and put on it's main page? SERIOUSLY!!! What makes it even worst is that all of you people have nothing better to do than to get on here and show everyone how great your grammer is and poke fun at Texas. Meanwhile, Obama has drove this country into the ground but MSNBC reports on a school's sign? I have officially lost all hope in this country. Idiocracy is in full swing.

"Has drove this country", Anon? Gees! (Doesn't look like a typo, either. I figure that's the way you talk.)The right wing has to turn everything into a diatribe against The President. You sound like a Texan. Hope you and Rick Perry will be happy together.

What makes it even worst...

big ed - you beat me to the comment on Anon's use of poor grammar, but you overlooked his use of "worst" when the word "worse" is correct.

Anon - I've lost all hope for this country, as well, but you are one of the reasons that I've lost hope. Really, did you learn nothing in public school?

Sam Adams - which taxes r u referring to?

Hiya TFG long time sweetie hope all is well! I was wondering the same thing considering we don't pay state taxes lol maybe Sam is being facetious?

Alls, typical and dry here, but we got 3 inches of rain last night and only need another 18 more to break the drought, GEEZ!!! I have not seen storms so pretty in years, gorgeous lightning and rumbling thunder clouds!! Its a sad day when rain makes you drool!!!! LMBO

We had some claps of thunder that were so loud it shot my cat straight up in the air (which in itself is a feat considering he's a lazy 25 pound fat bastard lol) which in turn scared the crap out of me since we were watching scary movies, we got quite a bit of rain but not near enough I really need to get my corn planted!

Peter Noone knows how much money this school needs? Did you get that from playing "I'm Henry the VIII" backwards? :)

I think you meant "no one". I still adore Peter Noone!

Noone is not a word, (Essie is right though, Peter Noone spells his last name that way but then your comment still doesn't make sense) it should be two words: no one.

The space bar is that big one at the bottom of the keyboard. Please use it Maobama

Nice edit.

Well, genius, the the sign was made by a sign company, not the school. It is often easy to overlook a single letter when reading a sign, as the the human brain is quick to filter out minute details.

Go back and re-read my post. Did you catch that I wrote "the" twice on two occasions? Most likely you did not, genius.

Well, lets think...who made the sign???

I suspect the sign maker did the deed....not the school.

You got that right......."Don't Mess With Texas"........it is pretty hard to argue with the intellegence of a common gnat.

DKL...so, you've debated against George Bush Jr???

you sure that isn't secretery...or secreteary?

That all makes sense if you think 6 year olds put up the school name on the building.....

Grandfather204741,

Do you mean 6 year olds physically or mentally?

Not "figured it out" Gf, "noticed it". Names are spelled so many different ways, its no wonder people didn't notice. And, its so inconsequential (apparently absolutely no problem was created by the spelling, for 9 years), that maybe a few did notice, and figured it wasn't worth bothering about. After all, there is no "right", or "wrong" way to spell a name (there's only however that person chooses to spell it). Good to see they can get a learning moment out of it, though.

Oh PLEASE Razor. This had to go through the hands of many people before the change was approved. Don't make excuses. Just accept it, correct it, make fun of it for a while, then forget it.

LBJ was from Texas too--and was without question the most Texan of them all...

And Kennedy was shot in Dallas. What a State.

No the people in West Virginia voted for a felon in Texas, your reading comprehension is sub-par but you're making fun of us? That's funny.

FlaTim78---Try getting your story straight. The voters in West Virginia voted for a prisoner in Texas. Of course, since you are from Florida, I understand your confusion.

Again it was people in West Virginia who voted for the felon in Texas! Learn reading comprehension for God sake.

Goddamn you're an effin retard FlaTim78

Yeah because throwing buttloads of money at it to teach children to pass tests has worked so well right?

When every state is cutting the education budget ,like they have been doing for years I truly don't understand what you are saying?

Commishioned??

What never ceases to amaze me is how people can turn a simple spelling mistake into something political. Or to put an entire state down. Human beings are fallible. No one is perfect. For some reason, we live in a society that demands perfection. Don't make a mistake or every Tom, Dick and Harry; every Mary, Susie and Jane will descend and label you unfit as educators and demand a public humiliation. And you'll be shamed all over the internet. The entire education system comes under fire and we are lead to believe that Superintendents down to the maintenance workers, are failing our children! It's a SPELLING MISTAKE for crying out loud. Correct the error and move on. Jeez

The city name is Annapolis -- two n's.