Some spelling mistakes can be quite embarrassing. Take, for example, the mistake that someone at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina didn't spot. As a result, hundreds of teachers in the school system received free coasters bearing the words "Career and Technical Eduction."
Yes, you guessed it. It should have been: "Career and Techniqual Eduction."
A CMS spokesperson told us the company that printed the coasters, Ad Concepts, didn't catch the mistake and neither did CMS when they approved the proof.
That's hard to believe for some parents.
"Nobody picked it up? Nobody was able to proofread this?" asked parent Talia Goldman. "It doesn't make me happy." [Link]
Commenters on the Internet were also displeased. Wrote one woman: "What a SAD commentary on our eduction system."
Wrote another: "Now you know why I took my kids outta school and am teachin dem at home."
A third commenter was rather blunt: "What imbesiles! Even I can spell bettar than that."
in various courses. Well, what if you found out that a particular book was required not by a professor but a university donor? You wouldn't be pleased, would you? I'd be utterly furious, especially if it was one of the books that I actually read.
monetary rewards stopped, perhaps because my mother didn't want me to be motivated only by money. Or perhaps it was my sister who spoiled it all with her "show me the money too" demands.
principals, both in Zambia and India. I vividly remember my entire Form 3 (Grade 10) class being caned in Ndola, Zambia, because we were making too much noise. My butt was sore for days -- and striped for even longer. I also remember being pinched so hard at a Seventh Day Adventist school in Madurai, India, that part of my arm turned green and my eyes saw red.