Paterson, New Jersey, school officials have demoted elementary school principal Antoinette Young after a large sign in front of her school contained several misspellings for more than a week.
The marquee, which had on it announcements for this month, contained the words “Dicember” (December) and “reepor” (report).
City education officials have demoted an elementary school principal days after a school board member circulated a photo showing misspellings in a large announcement sign outside one of the building’s entrances.
The sign at School 20’s side entrance listed events for “Dicember 2014.” It alerted people to the date for “progress reepor” and had the numeral one placed backwards in another instance.
Officials said the sign apparently contained those errors for more than a week, but apparently no one noticed until city school board member Corey Teague distributed copies of a photo of the errors.
“If this is how the administration takes care of signage how can we expect the students to do better? We must be held to a higher standard,” wrote Teague in an email accompanying the photo.
Officials said a custodian at the school had made the mistake in updating the sign — the type in which individual magnetized letters are used to form words. Officials said the sign was outside a side entrance that was generally not used by the principal or other staff members.
The principal, Antoinette Young, is being reassigned to an as-yet undetermined position, said district spokeswoman Terry Corallo. The vice principal, Boris Simon, is serving as interim principal, Corallo said.
It’s entirely believable that the custodian botched the spelling on the marquee. The schools with which I’m familiar always have one of them update the signs with new information. However, they typically use what an administrator has written down for them.
A district spokesman refused to say what would happen to Ms. Young.
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