Misspelled Sign Principal Job NJ: High School Principal Demoted After Sign Mishap


A misspelled sign may have cost a principal in N.J. her job.

According to Yahoo! News, a principal was reassigned after a sign outside of a New Jersey public high school with multiple spelling errors was left up for over a week. Evidently not paying attention to the errors, the school’s principal, Antoinette Young, was oblivious (and/or careless), and may have cost her the position.

“The message on the sign above the entryway to Paterson’s Public School Number 20 included three mistakes: December was spelled ‘Dicember,’ report as ‘reepor’ and a ‘1’ was placed backwards,” reports Yahoo! News.

The misspelled sign that may have cost a principal her job had the Paterson NJ Board of Education members baffled. Board member Corey Teague spoke out about the incident, saying that he first thought it must have been some kind of a joke. Once he realized that the sign’s shortcomings weren’t an accident, he snapped a pic and posted it on Facebook.

“At first I didn’t believe it. I thought it was Photoshopped or something. We can’t assume because it’s an urban district — inner-city — that things like this can be swept over. If it were a suburban neighborhood, parents would be outraged,” Teague said.

According to Mail Online, Young is still listed as the school’s principal, but she has been demoted despite what the school’s website reads. School officials said that Young’s demotion was due to other reasons as well, but those reasons were not specified.

The misspelled sign that may have cost the NJ principal her job wasn’t the first time someone misspelled something that the public found out about. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, “Jesus” was misspelled on Vatican medals that went on sale in 2013. The Vatican noticed the mistake (Jesus was spelled with a “v” instead of a “u”), and pulled the medals to have new ones made. However, some people purchased the medals before the new ones were put out, and they have become quite the hot commodity for coin collectors around the globe.

“Having Jesus misspelled on an official Vatican medal is a little embarrassing for the church. On the bright side, it’s great news for coin collectors. Four of the medals were purchased before the Vatican shop had them removed and those coins could end up fetching a lot of money in the rare coin market.”

[Photo courtesy of Corey Teagan/Facebook]

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