Yahoo News: Misspelled sign at Paterson, New Jersey's Public School Number 20 may have cost high school principal Antoinette Young her job - "according to NorthJersey.com, Young was already under review for unrelated performance issues." [Don't know the details, but it doesn't seem wise to assign high school sign lettering duties to a custodian who can't spell, or at least can't transfer the correct spelling off a 3 x 5 card.]

Misspelled sign may have cost high school principal her job

Mistakes on message above entryway were left uncorrected for more than a week

A principal has been reassigned after a misspelled sign was displayed for more than a week outside a New Jersey public high school.

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.

The errors drew the ire of school Paterson Board of Education member Corey Teague, who saw a photo of the misspelled sign on Facebook.

“At first I didn’t believe it," Teague told CBS New York. "I thought it was Photoshopped or something."

When Teague found out it was real, he shared the photo on Facebook.

"How can we expect our children to learn how to spell when the administration can't?" Teague wrote. "We must be held to a higher standard.”

“We can’t assume because it’s an urban district — inner-city — that things like this can be swept over," he told the CBS affiliate. "If it were a suburban neighborhood, parents would be outraged."

School officials told NJ.com that the lettering "was placed by a custodian and the sign was near an entrance not normally used by staff." It was later corrected. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/misspelled-sign-paterson-nj-school-principal-141949588.html