Posts Tagged school
You’re Kids Learn Hear?
Posted by Readers Like You in Uncategorized on January 30, 2012
Well, obviously ‘going by the rules’ doesn’t include grammatical rules! This is posted on a cooler in the front of the cafeteria at my son’s old school and has been there at least two years or longer. This is just one more reason I wouldn’t put my other two kids in this school!
(Thanks, June D!)
Sixth-Grade Classroom Rules
Posted by Readers Like You in Uncategorized on January 31, 2011
These classroom rules were written by a sixth-grade teacher in my district. The first apostrophe might look like a speck, but I promise you that it’s actually there! Totally unforgivable.
(Thanks, Andie!)
Want’s to thank coaches… should blame teachers?
Posted by Readers Like You in Uncategorized on October 25, 2010
That’s not a misplaced apostrophe. It’s just, uh, a contraction of *want us*. Ahem.
From Union Hill Elementary (surprise) in Union Hill, CA. Photo taken yesterday (10-24-2010).
(Thanks, Jay!)
Mural at Robert Frost Elementary School, Kirkland, Washington
Posted by ApostropheAbuse in Uncategorized on October 9, 2007
A concerned parent sends in:
A nice example for the children to absorb at recess. Why not just fix it with some white paint? Have the teachers not realized that it is incorrect?
It’s in a school parking lot
Posted by ApostropheAbuse in Uncategorized on October 5, 2007
Sagacious writes:
At this middle school in Florida, there are multiple signs with this wording in its parking lots. If you had to make a grammatical blunder, at least don’t make it in front of a school. No wonder Florida is sometimes referred to as “Floriduh.”
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