Dese kids go to kule ter get lurned reel gud . . . and ten years later they are running their own printing business. What goes around comes around.

"We understand we aren't gonna be perfect".

While I appreciate the honesty and am flawed myself, I'm inclined to look for a higher bar.

and get edyoukation...

Back in late 90's they swtched making class rings into Mexico Nuevo Laredo and tried to keep it a secret. Was a fiasco. Many people in Mn, and Attleboro Mass. lost their jobs. Many people in Mex could not read or write. There were so many remakes of rings that were wrong that plant in Denton was remaking them all over again. One ring audit showed about 1100 rings wrong, sent out to keep them on time. After that they brought rings back to be made in U.S.

Yearbooks were made in Mn few years back.

Now...when you read my above post ...did you catch the word misspelled? Be honest....See how perfect you are? In the ring making process there are numerous persons at each station that are responsible in making the mold process for the ring. Each person at every step is required to make sure everything is correct as it moves from station to station. The mold get shipped to another plant and there are numerous people that have to recheck ring spelling and all specifics all through that process, then more recheck in final inspection. Rings should be perfect every time. Yearbooks should be perfect every time. My daughters best friend received one of those rings years ago made wrong but it was shipped out on time so she would at least have something at grad time. However, because the ring was incorrect it ruined the moment, ...forever. Management few years back received a bonus on the on time delivery rate and another on error rate of rings completed. If you have a ring made wrong, call customer service and they will repair or remake the ring asap. Why pay for something and not get your moneys worth?

All very well and good but aren't you paying to have it done right the first time? And what happened to the last stage quality control check? That was outsourced too?

starsailing,

As far as I know Jostens still prints yearbooks in Clarksville, TN and in State College, PA. Never been to the MN plant, but that could still be operational as well.

I owuld say that it is proof that our educational system doesn't work.

Bad spelling like bad grammar is indicative of ignorance and poor education. Many Americans think that is okay. Who needs to be concerned about spelling except English teachers? It is a sad commentary on our thinking and our way of life that so many people are trashy in their grammar, their dress, their thinking and their personal habits. Bad spelling is just one symptom of the polluting and trashy society we have created. We all shoulder the responsibility to make this world a better place.

You can't dog someone 4 years about their errors only to misspell the actual goal of everyone walking on the stage.

Didn't the school get to have an opportunity to proof the diplomas? Starsailing: Switched...although, in the era of texts and tweets, it's getting harder and harder to tell if misspellings are deliberate or products of ignorance. There is a speel checker

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I don't know about that, but it is a bad "navado" to misspell. Navado is a way of saying habit in Spanish, vs nevado for snow.

Clark County School District, the largest in Nevada (this particular one being in Las Vegas), is rated somewhere amongst the worst in the nation. Nice corrupt school district with lots of internal conflicts, they especially like to flex their muscle against parents. And I believe that Nevada was ranked somewhere around the 48th out of 50 states last I checked.

I'm not surprised at Navada's graduataion fiasco.

You are correct; CCSD is corrupt and their new superintendent is a joke. The district is bloated with overpaid, unqualified administrators and not enough teachers. It's who, not what, you know that gets you a job, promotion, or lucrative district contract. Certain people are protected against job "surplussing", others are fast tracked into administration because they are related to someone up the food chain or they kiss a lot of a**. Reminds me of the federal government: waste, corruption, cronyism, nepotism.

Actually, CCSD is very afraid of parents suing, which is why certain rules are bent for some students. Teachers are often harassed and intimidated by principals. Even if you are a stellar employee with nothing in your personnel file, forget blowing the whistle on immoral or illegal behavior by administrators. The perps will get promotions while you will get blackballed and end up in an undesirable school 25 miles away. Good luck ever changing positions because upper admin will instruct principals not to hire you. (This has happened to many, no exaggeration.) The "union" is useless in protecting you. A lot of people just quit and get the he** out of Nevaduh.

Jostens new motto......"Spelling is Overrated".

i unduhstand wot they mint...to say...

Yeah, yeah "What's the matter with kids today? Woho can understand anything that they say? ..." (That song is 50 years old, and was about today's grandparents.) Everybody's grandparents always think the world is going to hell, in a hand basket. Always have, always will. You should see what Socrates said about the young men of ancient Greece (Plato's generation, 2500 years ago). You want to really shock your kids? Explain to them that, in a few decades, they will turn into the same, out of touch, judgemental, "good is whatever I'm used to fuddy-duddy that you turned. Ever wonder why misprinted, and misstruck stamps and coins are worth a thousand times what the same coin or stamp (but perfect) is worth?

How do you know where Josten's employees are from?

Oh, wait, you don't.

Wow, you hate liberals and you're a racist... what a coincidence. I'm shocked. Truly.

The average foreigner who has studied English probably knows the language better than the average American.

British people, however, seem proud of their language...or their teachers expect higher standards from students. I'll never forget the American professor who said, "Spelling isn't important".

Yeah, because Americans don't study English in school. You're a f ucking idiot.

Have you ever noticed that most of the kids who will our national spelling bee.......are of foreign extraction? What does that say about you, ihateliberals?

I agree, americans have become poor spellers, you only have to watch CNN or any cable news channel, you will regularly see mistakes at the bottom of the screen, it's appalling. When I mention it to someone, I get strange looks like "why is this important ? ".

And people wonder why the US is way behind on academics, now we have kids who think texting is the right way to spell. I also regularly read comments on this site, which are full of mistakes, and when someone calls someone else out on spelling, he gets chastised by other posters. There is no right or wrong anymore. No wonder our kids are confused !

The British are no better, though. I can't even tell you how many times I've heard incorrect grammar coming out of the mouth of a British person. I thought they would know their language better, but evidently, they don't.

GAdude:

Did you know?....there are more legitimate linguistic variances of the English language in Britain than there are in the U.S. It's true!

These British variances result from the fact that, over time, the English language developed there in many smaller, somewhat isolated regions. Common mass communication (including common mass travel) was not yet a factor, so these variances took root and stabilized to the point that they became not only different accents (as we have between, say, New York and Texas), but legitimately differing linguistic modes.

These different linguistic modes incorporated and emphasized language influences from different sources, say, from Scotland as opposed to from Germany or France. Yet their common base root remained "English".

Now then, when you impose the modern expectation of standardized speech and spelling on to this scramble of English language(s), you wind up with spelling differences which are perfectly acceptable in one region, yet improper in another. "The Queen's English" is the standard only in regions near to the Queen, so to speak....and so is the Queen's spelling. (In fact, the expression, "The Queen's/King's English" came about as an observation of precisely the linguistic differences to which I refer herein.)

Overlay all this once again with the lesser emphasis on common, standardized education (which existed everywhere until only recently...meaning, the last century or so), and you can see that differences in spelling have taken root in just the same way that differences in spoken language took root. What is correct here may be incorrect there.

The U.S. developed differently; it was a new country whose general population developed from small homogenous groups. As those groups moved and expanded across the land, they took with them a fairly common language base which began to differ mainly in regional accent, and in idiomatic expressions. Language developed across the U.S during the same era in which standardized schooling became the American expectation, so the language base became more common among all Americans.

This is why English (American, really) speech is commonly understood from Miami to Seattle to Boston to Los Angeles. The accents are different, but the language is the same. Such commonality is not the same in Britain.

So don't be too hard on people who spell differently; their spelling may be the result of a linguistically different background. Or they may be just dumb-asses.

This just in... The new growth industry in America is proof reading!

Eloquent!

If the 2008 election had gone differently, the Republican president would have been properly recognized and respected. But you people don't accept the outcome of elections. You refer to the presidewnt as a "pretender" who "reportedly" graduated. You forgot to mention that he is a half breed, African-born Muslim. If you're going to hate as you do, you might as well go all the way.

Daniel....

If McCain screwed the economic recovery as much as Obama, McCain would be in as much trouble today as Obama.

Mr Trump- stop making up Newsvine accounts with fake names and get back to bed!

he's right. obama screwed up the economy. right now anyone in his position would be hated. he keeps saying bush did it but that just worn out. one man is wrong so instead of trying something different obama just becomes bush 3 basically. expands govt and the debt. he wont win a second term. personally i wanted colin powell or condi rice to make a run at the pres office.

I say, so what and who really cares? I didn't even get a diploma and I could care less. I got A's in Spelling and the best in Spelling Bees.

My Spellchecker underlines my name. What does that prove? Turn the darn thing off.

yupp...look wot they dun...

You must have magical powers of reading comprehension that I don't have. Where in the story did it say anything about the teachers (or their union) having anything to do with this? Administration places orders for diplomas, and a third party made them. I doubt a single teacher was involved in any of that process.

Twas' a joke, i'm assuming.

Amen. As an instructor of political science, I am also amazed at how many students do not know the basics of how to put together a paper, or how to do even a minimal effort at proofreading. Among some of the common errors I've come across:

Its vs. it's

Could've & should've (which of course are not really written words.

Run-on sentences, or sentences that are technically not run-ons, but last long enough to make even an English PhD run screaming when they try to diagram.

Affect versus effect

Paragraphs that go on for a page and a half.

Their vs there

Loose vs. lose

Where is all this emphasis on reading and writing I hear so much about in No Child Left Behind? I'm certainly not seeing it among many college age students, particularly the freshmen. Upper level students are usually a bit better, but many freshmen just don't have the basics they need to survive in the real world, let along college.

Also, the attitude by the spokesperson bothers me. What business PR representative in his or her right mind is going to justify the error by saying that they're not perfect? Just apologize for the mistake and assure the students that it will be rectified, and that measures will be taken to not repeat it. If I were that school, I'd be looking into getting a different company to print the diplomas in the future. I wouldn't tolerate that attitude from a fast-food restaurant or convenience store, let along a diploma manufacture.

Fer sure.

The grammer is totally lacking ?....LOL !

Julia: This would be unacceptable if I WERE the employer. You're speaking hypothetically, so it's were, not was.

Hoo haw, that was good. Fer sure, you betcha. I always climb on my high horse knowing that once I'm up there I am destined to fall or get knocked off.

mygirl1: That was exactly my message to Julia. But actually, I appreciate it when somebody knocks me off my high horse every now and then (mine's not all that high); I don't take offense. That's usually how I learn new things.