X-Rated Font on Handout for Parents

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:39 am

X-Rated Font Used on Third-Grade Spelling Handout Provided to Parents
09-18-2006 9:27 PM

MONROE, N.Y. -- School officials apologized after an X-rated font was used on a third-grade spelling packet handed out to parents. The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses to form the letters of the alphabet.

Officials with the Monroe-Woodbury School District in Orange County apologized last week after parents at Pine Tree Elementary School were given the spelling packet at an open house.

Administrators said the teacher did not use the font intentionally.

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Hogeye · Post by **Hogeye** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:29 am

Hmmm. Must be the "Group Sex" font, downloadable from here.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:48 pm

Hogeye wrote:Hmmm. Must be the "Group Sex" font, downloadable from here.

DOUG
The question is, could this really have been an accident at the school? Who prints things out without looking at them?

Barbara Fitzpatrick · Post by **Barbara Fitzpatrick** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:28 am

Doug - unfortunately, most folks seem to print things out - and hand them out - without looking at them. As long as it passed the spellcheck and looks good on the screen, they seem to think it's OK. A friend sent me an email this morning of "church bulletin bloopers" - but I've seen the same thing come in on student papers at public and post-secondary school levels - and on professors' stuff as well. I've seen it in doctors' offices, lawyers' offices - you wouldn't believe! In fact, that's been my basic job in the business world - to make sure things like that don't get out under my "boss's" signature, no matter who wrote it.

Post by **Savonarola** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:01 am

Then the question remains: why is that font on a school computer? If it was done on a teacher's home computer, why was that teacher not avoiding that font like the plague?

Barbara Fitzpatrick · Post by **Barbara Fitzpatrick** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:24 am

Sav - Now THAT is a good question. That sort of font doesn't come with the standard Microsoft package, so somebody had to have downloaded it deliberately on the school computer. Unless that somebody was the school secretary, you can understand (presumably) her not checking for it since she didn't know it was there. However, WHOEVER downloaded it definitely needs to be tracked down and reprimanded (at the least) - unless, of course, the computer was a donation, in which case somebody should have cleaned the hard drive before donating and the school should have checked to make sure it was clean before using it.