Thursday, May 10, 2012

School misspelt its name for 9 years

A Fort Worth elementary school is correcting a spelling mistake made when it changed its name nearly nine years ago. Sunrise Elementary School added "McMillan" to its name in the 2003-2004 school year - but also added an extra "i." The school changed its name to honour its first teacher, Mrs. Mary McMillan, who eventually became principal.

A relative recently contacted the Fort Worth Independent School District to say it had included an extra vowel. Everything had the incorrect spelling of "Sunrise-McMillian" instead of "Sunrise-McMillan," including the lettering on the building, printed signs, vinyl congratulatory signs, logos and Facebook. The lettering on the building was changed on Monday.



Ever since hearing from McMillan's relative, the school has been correcting the error. But the name is in many places people easily forget, such as business cards, visitor's passes, certificates and digital signatures embedded in email. Principal Marion Mouton and his staff keep finding misspellings to correct. "Our day-to-day things that we just take for granted now and, as we're coming up with it, we're seeing 'OK, that's something else we need to fix,'" he said.

The student body as a whole hasn't been told, though some may know. Once more misspellings are corrected, the school hopes to turn the mix-up into a teachable moment on how to take responsibility, correct an error and move on. The Fort Worth ISD isn't saying how much it will cost to fix all the mistakes but did say it's exhausting all resources to try and keep costs down.

With news video.

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