Looks like the work of an alchoolic.

RexTalionis: That's a damning indictment of Floridian schools, almost as damning as Floridian schools themselves.

You misspelled scohol (otherwise known as shcool).

Great googly moogly!

I used to work with sign painters. Folks who would do art and lettering on billboard sized areas. I can't count the times that they'd get finished and be cleaning paint from brushes only to look up and see a glaringly misspelled word.

Pootums: I used to work with sign painters. Folks who would do art and lettering on billboard sized areas. I can't count the times that they'd get finished and be cleaning paint from brushes only to look up and see a glaringly misspelled word.

Partial credit for at least realizing they made a mistake.

/forest through the trees and all

RexTalionis: That's a damning indictment of Floridian schools, almost as damning as Floridian schools themselves.

I would say it's hard to top the incident a few years back when education officials accidentally made the state standardized tests too easy. Everyday when I think that a new state should deserve the status as the worst in the union, Florida comes back and does them all one better to retake the top spot. You never disappoint me, Sunshine State.


Pootums: I used to work with sign painters. Folks who would do art and lettering on billboard sized areas. I can't count the times that they'd get finished and be cleaning paint from brushes only to look up and see a glaringly misspelled word.

CSB time:

In college, I was once helping my little sib in my fraternity construct his pledge board. After cutting it out and sanding it down, he then spent a whole afternoon meticulously painting his last name on it in an elaborate design and then showed it off to me proudly. I took a look at it and said to him, "This looks pretty awesome, dude. But doesn't your last name have two e's?" We never let him live that one down.

/CSB

Ahhh, I remember my formative days in shool

Alscohol may have been a factor.

Ric Romero reports that people who do this work in all states tend to be uneducated, which is closely related to why they'll take a job this boring and low paying.

/Blame Florida!

School for kids that don't read good.

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Choked on my Corn Flakes. Thanks for that.

Eh, happened here last year -- painted right in front of the Florida Highway Patrol station, which is next to the school. They had it repainted within an hour -- but of course not before photos were all over the intertwebs.

/Yes, Florida here.....

RexTalionis: the_vegetarian_cannibal: RexTalionis: That's a damning indictment of Floridian schools, almost as damning as Floridian schools themselves.

I would say it's hard to top the incident a few years back when education officials accidentally made the state standardized tests too easy. Everyday when I think that a new state should deserve the status as the worst in the union, Florida comes back and does them all one better to retake the top spot. You never disappoint me, Sunshine State.

I had a buddy I was in middle school with who moved to Florida before he started high school. He was telling me how, because he already took algebra in middle school in Jersey, he was bumped up to all the smart classes because apparently, algebra before high school is considered very impressive where he was.

That lead me to conclude that Floridian schools (at least, that school) weren't very challenging.

My half-sister moved to Florida from Connecticut when she was 10. Even though she was about average up here, she got moved to a magnet school for advanced students upon arrival. Everything I've seen about Florida schools suggests they just bringing down the average for the rest of us.

tetsoushima: RexTalionis: the_vegetarian_cannibal: RexTalionis: That's a damning indictment of Floridian schools, almost as damning as Floridian schools themselves.

I would say it's hard to top the incident a few years back when education officials accidentally made the state standardized tests too easy. Everyday when I think that a new state should deserve the status as the worst in the union, Florida comes back and does them all one better to retake the top spot. You never disappoint me, Sunshine State.

I had a buddy I was in middle school with who moved to Florida before he started high school. He was telling me how, because he already took algebra in middle school in Jersey, he was bumped up to all the smart classes because apparently, algebra before high school is considered very impressive where he was.

That lead me to conclude that Floridian schools (at least, that school) weren't very challenging.

My half-sister moved to Florida from Connecticut when she was 10. Even though she was about average up here, she got moved to a magnet school for advanced students upon arrival. Everything I've seen about Florida schools suggests they are just bringing down the average for the rest of us.

RexTalionis: I had a buddy I was in middle school with who moved to Florida before he started high school. He was telling me how, because he already took algebra in middle school in Jersey, he was bumped up to all the smart classes because apparently, algebra before high school is considered very impressive where he was.

That lead me to conclude that Floridian schools (at least, that school) weren't very challenging.

Your friend's experience is pretty dead-on. In my middle school in Miami-Dade, any 8th grader in Algebra was considered to be an honors-level student. And this was in one of the best public schools in the county, which was located in a wealthy, affluent community. If that was the situation in the "rich white suburb" schools, I can't imagine how there were everywhere else.

"That's not fair... getting paid to spell wrong is not right man," neighbor RJ Morales says.

Yah man.

Scohol's out for smumer!

Came for 'Home Scholers For Perry', leaving disappoint.

/Tested out of Honors Physics as a Senior in HS after transferring.

Same thing happened down the street from my house. SCOHOL. They painted over it and corrected it the next day. Now it looks awful, but crroectly spelled.

Its that whey sew the dyslexics can fined they're weigh their.

sxacho: Same thing happened down the street from my house. SCOHOL. They painted over it and corrected it the next day. Now it looks awful, but crroectly spelled.

heh

Vodak may have been involved.

rocketpants: In South FL, it's usually spelled E-S-C-U-E-L-A.

Just what I was thinking.
In some non english languages that would be a correct translation.

huh, we started algebra in grade 5...yay Canada :D

/and I thought we were behind. Though, I really shouldn't compare education standards with the States... you're not as easy to control if they don't keep you dumb and scared, are ya?

It kills me that, these days, everybody is 'alarmed' or 'devastated', or some other over the top drama queen word. Why don't they just look, have a good laugh, and get on with their lives? Must everything be blown out of proportion?

Most detailed story I've ever read.

"Parents concerned about this. More news at 8"

Not only is it misspelled, but it's extremely sloppy. I wonder how long traffic was tied up while they made this monstrosity. Now it will be tied up again while they correct it.

These days, I'm very happy I turned down an offer to move to Florida.

RexTalionis: the_vegetarian_cannibal: Your friend's experience is pretty dead-on. In my middle school in Miami-Dade, any 8th grader in Algebra was considered to be an honors-level student. And this was in one of the best public schools in the county, which was located in a wealthy, affluent community. If that was the situation in the "rich white suburb" schools, I can't imagine how there were everywhere else.

That's just sad. I think algebra was a standard part of the curriculum for 7th and 8th grade in my part of NJ (which, granted, was a fairly well-to-do white suburb itself).

We were doing basic algebra by the end of fourth grade, parabolas and such in fifth, quadratics and trig in seventh. Hurray private school!

\My grade eigtht "moral and religious education" teacher diddled little boys, but hey, you take the bad with the good.

cyber_slacker: \My grade eigtht "moral and religious education" teacher diddled little boys, but hey, you take the bad with the good.

Private school teached you good.

People working in the trades for a school system are no better than people working in the trades anywhere else. If anything, there are people who are worse because they don't go out of business due to poor performance.

EducatedBum: Scohol's out for smumer!

So much win!

RexTalionis: tetsoushima: Even though she was about average up here, she got moved to a magnet school for advanced students upon arrival.

Same thing with my friend, although, in NJ, he was decidedly below average as a student, he was put in all the advanced classes in Florida.

Had something like that happen to me when I was a kid too. Opposite though. My school records didn't make it to the school in time when we transferred from one base to another and even though I was in normal and advanced classes in DC and had been reading since I was 3, they didn't want to bother to test me they just put me in all remedial classes. My entire 6th grade year was pretty boring because of that. The only good that came out of it was I was able to read about a hundred books. (yes, I was a glasses wearing, book worm, sci-fi, D&D geek). Tested to an advanced magnate school the next year and the admins at the school board practically shat themselves because they were under the impression that I went from an illiterate remedial student to a junior mensa prodigy in their remedial program. Dumbasses.

cyber_slacker: RexTalionis: the_vegetarian_cannibal: Your friend's experience is pretty dead-on. In my middle school in Miami-Dade, any 8th grader in Algebra was considered to be an honors-level student. And this was in one of the best public schools in the county, which was located in a wealthy, affluent community. If that was the situation in the "rich white suburb" schools, I can't imagine how there were everywhere else.

That's just sad. I think algebra was a standard part of the curriculum for 7th and 8th grade in my part of NJ (which, granted, was a fairly well-to-do white suburb itself).

We were doing basic algebra by the end of fourth grade, parabolas and such in fifth, quadratics and trig in seventh. Hurray private school!

\My grade eigtht "moral and religious education" teacher diddled little boys, but hey, you take the bad with the good.

We were doing algebra in 3rd grade.

Nothing like having your local elementary school have the address of "100 Scholl St."

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Doesn't the quote FTFA "Some of the parents are concerned" alarm anyone? Shouldn't it read "All of the parents are concerned"

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charley572: It kills me that, these days, everybody is 'alarmed' or 'devastated', or some other over the top drama queen word. Why don't they just look, have a good laugh, and get on with their lives? Must everything be blown out of proportion?

Apparently so.

dukesboy: Doesn't the quote FTFA "Some of the parents are concerned" alarm anyone? Shouldn't it read "All of the parents are concerned"

It depends on what the definition of "concerned" is. If I saw that, I wouldn't be wringing my hands and worrying while calling the whole phone tree to demand an emergency PTA meeting about it. I'd roll my eyes and wonder how long until it was fixed and then get on with my day. Whether or not that officially counts as concern, I don't know.

WhyKnot: We were doing algebra in 3rd grade.

In the womb, biatchez!

Too cool for salcohol

/smarmy teetotalers