New York's Hempstead Union Free School District Disciplines Employee Who Compiled Misspelled Summer Reading List

Well, it could happened anywhere, I guess.

At WSJ, "Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gypsy'? School Book List Fails Spell Check: Hempstead Summer Reading Recommendation Rife With Errors":

When the Hempstead Union Free School District put together a summer reading list this year, students and parents were introduced to some unfamiliar new titles.

Among them: "The Canterbury Tale," by Geoffrey Chaucer; "The Lovely Bone," by Alice Sebold; and, most notably, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gypsy."

School officials in the Long Island community said Thursday that they had disciplined an employee who made the dozens of spelling errors and typos in the 13-page list outlining recommended summer reading for students.

Alicia Figueras, the district's spokeswoman, said at a news conference that the district apologizes for what she called an isolated incident.

"I would like to announce that disciplinary action has been taken against the personnel who made the unfortunate clerical errors while compiling the list," she said.

The district declined to identify the employee, provide his or her title or say how he or she was disciplined.

RTWT.

Well all make typos, especially me.

But I think there's more to this story than the school district's letting on. But you'd need a FOIA request to get the full story out of these derps. Sheesh.