NYC DOT Dodges Blame For Misspelled 'Shcool X-NG' Sign On Stanton Street

NEW YORK -- Everyone who's ever gone to school should know how to spell "school."

But someone who plastered a school crossing sign on the street in front of a New York City high school got it wrong.

The New York Post reports that the big white letters in front of Marta Valle High School on the Lower East Side say "SHCOOL X-NG."

A spokesman for the city Department of Transportation said the error was made by a utility provider, not by the city.

The Post says workers apparently cut into the asphalt several months ago to get to underground utility lines. When utilities or contractors perform work on a city street, they are responsible for restoring it correctly.

The Department of Transportation spokesman said the error will be corrected.

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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com

Comments

[sking007]

10:01 PM on 01/25/2012

Klose enuf four constucton wurk.

[frequentwind706]

01:55 PM on 01/25/2012

How is the DOT "dodging responsibility" if it seems undisputed that it was the utility workers that cut into the street and then re-spelled school incorrectly?

[Sam-H]

10:21 AM on 01/25/2012

Construction workers should be armed with spellcheckers.

But what if drivers also didn’t know how to spell? The misspelled word may have been more suitable for the intended audience and safer for the kids. What do you think?

Just imagine Dan Quayle driving down the street.

[Marceline Crutchfield]

09:48 AM on 01/25/2012

I have seen this before. Old news or not the first time.

[Mailman]

08:55 AM on 01/25/2012

This what the public (government) schools is teaching other than reading, writing and math.

[ennui the third]

06:43 AM on 01/25/2012

The utility provider had a hipster worker who thought this was cool...

[wakohnen]

06:01 AM on 01/25/2012

Can't help but wonder how long it took for someone to notice the error......lol

[lukeymarine]

04:25 AM on 01/25/2012

This is what the future hold's for us ,more dumb people!!

[duyyek]

03:52 AM on 01/25/2012

The Post says workers apparently cut into the several months ago to get to underground utility lines.
Cut into the what?

[JC2009USA]

03:41 AM on 01/25/2012

Just goes to show - we need to continue to have spelling classes in school - sckull - skool - skoul...

[thesilentcrow]

02:26 AM on 01/25/2012

painting those signs is a pain in the bum with the trucks and stencils they use. what determines if the mistake was really stupid is whether or not it was hand painted or done with the thermoplastic "paint", which is usually done with a machine.

[leavesbound]

02:02 AM on 01/25/2012

In my lifetime I have seen school crossing signs on the road spelled this way twice as well as "sshool" and "sckool."

[stjoshy]

01:31 AM on 01/25/2012

shcool.... i does not sea the prublum

[Criss Davenport]

01:30 AM on 01/25/2012

Boy...funny thing is this article is suppose to be critizing them BUT....its suppose to be X-ING not X-NG and the second to last paragraph makes NO SENSE....lol. Why...ever hear the saying....stones...glass house?????

lol

[soothhurts]

01:57 AM on 01/25/2012

haha...and you misspelled 'criticize'....not being mean, just think it's funny

[thesilentcrow]

02:29 AM on 01/25/2012

i don't think huffpost writers proof read their work. frankly, i don't think anyone uses spell-check or proof reads anything anymore.

[Mark Pellegrino]

12:40 AM on 01/25/2012

Funny thing is....... The person who wrote this article also has a problem. Second last paragraph first sentence makes no sense at all !!!!! The Post says workers apparently cut into the several months ago to get to underground utility lines. When utilities or contractors perform work on a city street, they are responsible for restoring it correctly.

Lets face it people WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!! OU KAY