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Damning with mis-spelt praise

 

At the corner of Woy Woy Primary School, facing Blackwall Road, stands a school sign featuring the usual upbeat messages.

For the past week the message has intended to praise school results in a State competition where three Woy Woy kids achieved "acheivement" status.

Does this cavalier disregard of the normal spelling of "achievement" indicate that Woy Woy teachers are returning to the 1970s belief that spelling doesn't matter (it's the thought that counts) or is it just that none of them ever look at the damn sign?

Either way, leaving a patently mis-spelled school sign on view for a week or more says nothing for the principal and staff and degrades the efforts of the children who achieved the honour.

It doesn't say much for the parents who daily deliver their kids past the sign as well, but then, most of those deliverers haven't learned to read the speed limit signs either.

Ray Parkin, Woy Woy