You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
Misspelling the word SCHOOL outside of a school. We all learned to spell. We learned to spell inside a school. That’s why misspelling school at a school is really uncool.
I know that our educational system is questionable but really?
Misspell the very thing that people are driving to and dropping their kids off at.
How very very sad.
Imagine driving up to the BUS and it says: SUB. You might not know whether to eat it or load a torpedo.
They say reading is Fundamental. But outside one Manhattan school, it’s mostly just mental.
DATELINE: Manhattan
For months now the word SCHOOL has been misspelled on Stanton Street outside a Lower East Side high school.
For months parents drove up to the building marked by the word:
S H C O O L in huge white letters. It’s on the street, in 10 foot tall letters. It makes up the cross walk.
Did nobody notice? Did nobody care?
If I drive up to a shcool, I’m going inside and asking someone what the hell’s going on. Who runs this shcool?
I understand that mistakes happen. I can see a dyslexic painter messing this one up. H gets in the way of a C. It happens. But then you send out the non-dyslexic painter and correct it immediately.
Right?
Wrong.
S H C O O L was there for months. Parents coming and going. Buses driving over it. Principal must have driven over it a few times too. Who knows, maybe a couple of drive bys went down on the misspelled word.
“It’s embarrassing for the city!” laughed Luis Maldonado, 50, a maintenance worker in the area. “Teaching kids to read and write correctly is very important!”
According to published reports, it happened when workers apparently cut into the asphalt to get to underground utility lines.
“It’s sad,” said Derek Pacheco, a Flushing securities-industry worker who passes by on his way to work. “It speaks volumes about the dumbing down of American culture.”
Now that it has been publicized, everyone is blaming someone else.
Ah the American way.
According to published reports, shcool officials couldn’t be reached, but the school’s PTA president, Linda Surles, wasn’t surprised that no one has reported the mistake.
“Nothing surprises me any more at this school,” she said. “What’s ironic is that the principal has probably painted the lunchroom and rooms inside over about five times since.”
Well now they have some repainting to get to outside the SHCOOL.
And that is crazy.