"There was a young lady in Pennsylvania who was incensed when she found two typographical errors and even an error in grammar in her local newspaper. Fortunately for the course of Western culture, she knew the right thing to do, and she did it. She fired off a stiff note of protest to the editor. And who better to do it? She was, after all, a schoolteacher, and rightly mindful of the baleful influence of the popular media on her impressionable charges.
Among other things, she wrote: "In writing I teach my third graders to proofread their work and I don’t expect them to find all mistakes. But, let’s face it Fellows you are not 8 and 9 year olds and this artical should have never gotten past you let alone printed in the form it was." That’s what she wrote. Those are her words, her syntax, her punctuation, her capitalization, her spelling. Her spelling of "artical" appears in three more places, so it’s no fluke, and in one place the word "allowed" comes out as "aloud."
This kind of ignorance in publik skool teachers is, unfortunately, more common than we would like to believe.