PATERSON — The principal of School 20 was reassigned after an exterior sign rife with error remained uncorrected for days, NorthJersey.com and other outlets reported. 
 
 Photos of the sign — whose magnetized letters spelled out “Dicember 2014” and “progress reepor” — were circulated on social media and to school board members by Corey Teague, another board member. Teague said he did not want the principal, Antoinette Young, disciplined, but only wanted to draw attention to a situation that needed to be addressed. 
 
 Young was already under review for unrelated performance issues, NorthJersey.com also reported. 
 
 The lettering was placed by a custodian and the sign was near an entrance not normally used by staff, officials said. 
 
 
 
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 PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Some serious misspellings on a school sign may have cost a principal her position. 
 
 It’s prominently positioned over the entryway at Paterson’s Public School Number 20, but it took more than a week for anyone to take notice and fix the glaring mistakes on the school’s sign. 
 
 As CBS2’s Vanessa Murdock reported, the controversial sign included misspellings of the words ‘December’ and ‘reports’ which were spelled ‘Dicember’ and ‘reepor’ respectively. The number ‘1’ was also backwards. 
 
 “How horrible. How are you going to teach the kids? How are you going to teach the kids when you can’t spell the simple month of December?” Betty Mack said. 
 
 It took a Facebook for someone to actually bring it to the school’s attention. That someone was parent and Paterson Board of Education member Corey Teague. 
 
 At first, Teague thought the picture was fake. 
 
 “At first I didn’t believe it was, i thought it was PhotoShopped or something,” Teague said. 
 
 When he found out it was the real deal, he became angry. 
 
 “We can’t assume because it’s an urban district — inner-city — that things like this can be swept over. If it were a suburban neighborhood parents would be outraged, disgusted,” Teague said. 
 
 Teague’s goal is to make sure that no sign posted on a Paterson school looks like this one again, but there may have been more fallout than intended. The principal, Antoinette Young, was reassigned. 
 
 The district wouldn’t confirm that the misspellings were the reason for her move, and some parents said the principal shouldn’t take the fall for someone else’s misspellings. 
 
 “They don’t talk about all the good things she’s done with the kids. We’re sad to see her go,” Linda Martinez said. 
 
 A district spokesperson told CBS2 that Principal Young has been reassigned as a vice principal to another school. 
 
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 A middle school teacher in Oklahoma has been fired after school officials say she put students into her car trunk to run an errand. 
 
 Heather Cagle, who taught at Wells Middle School in Catoosa, allegedly packed 11 of her students into her Honda Accord last October for a trip to Walmart for snacks, according to Fox 23. Seven of the kids piled into the backseat, two rode in front, and two 12-year-old girls were locked in the trunk. She did not have parental or school permission for the snack quest. 
 
 “It was a terrible mistake,” she told the school board Wednesday. “I didn't want to hurt anyone. I just wanted to do something nice." 
 
 She then drove to a Walmart store just behind the middle school. The two buildings share a parking lot, according to KJRH. 
 
 While an attorney for Catoosa Public Schools called the act “mental abuse”, Cagle’s lawyer says the teacher merely violated a seatbelt law, and pointed out she didn’t force any of the children into the car. 
 
 Nevertheless, the board voted to axe the teacher, who has worked for the school since 2005. 
 
 “No parent or grandparent or guardian should ever expect that any teacher, particularly not an experienced teacher, will take their children off campus in the trunk of a personal vehicle,” attorney Karen Long told Tulsa World. 
 
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– After a typo-ridden sign outside a public school became a thing on social media, the principal was reassigned to a different school—as a vice principal, reports CBS Local. The offending sign mentioned "Dicember" and a "progress reepor" at Public School 20 in Paterson, NJ. It was up for about a week, with photos of it circulating online. "How can we expect our children to learn how to spell when the administration can't?" wrote school board member Corey Teague. And though principal Antoinette Young didn't put up the sign herself, she's no longer in charge of the school, reports NJ.com. (This educator lost her job over a bizarre outing that made use of her car trunk.)