There’s just something about those school systems that invites mistakes.  From spelling errors in text books to poorly-done street crossings and road signs, if you’re doing anything related to any sort of public school or school system, make sure you check your spelling.  After all, you don’t want to embarrass yourself like the officials in South Bend, Indiana did when an organization called SouthBendOn.com put up a billboard praising South Bend’s pubic school system.  That’s right, they took the L out of “public.”

“I feel terrible. It’s a mistake we made and we’re guilty of it, and responsible for it. and we take full responsibility for the error,” said Patrick Strickler, president of the Blue Waters Group that developed the ad.  “Four people looked at it, eyeballed it and didn’t see the mistake, and those people all work for me.  We take responsibility for it. We simply blew it. We did not see the missing L.”  Strickler emphasized, “We’re the ones who made the mistake, not the city or the school.”

The mistake was discovered by Lee MacMillan, who is the source of the firestorm around the billboard mistake.  His wife found it first, and MacMillan took the fateful picture above:  “She got home and said, ‘I can’t believe it said what I think it said.’  So we were out driving around yesterday and sure enough, it had that typo in it.  So we took a picture and the rest is history, as they say.”

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