PATERSON, N.J. – An elementary school principal in New Jersey was removed from her position after a school board member pointed out a horribly misspelled sign that greeted students at the school for a week.

“Dicember 2014,” read the sign at Public School Number Twenty in Paterson.

“18 Progress reepor

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“23 Dismissal 1:00-PM

“24 – 31 (the one was backwards) School Closed.”

Paterson school board member Corey L. Teague posted a picture of the sign on Facebook Dec. 11, and posed the question, “How can we expect our children to learn how to spell when the administration can’t?” according to NJ.com.

He also sent out an email with a picture of the sign after nobody moved to correct it for more than a week.

“If this is how the administration takes care of signage how can we expect the students to do better?” he wrote in the email, according to NorthJersey.com.

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“We must be held to a higher standard.”

School officials blamed the misspelled sign on a custodian, and said it went unnoticed because it was over a side entrance not typically used by the principal or staffers.

Regardless, district spokeswoman Terry Corallo told North Jersey that School 20’s principal, Antoinette Young – who takes home $108,000 per year in salary – was recently reassigned for a variety of reasons she wouldn’t go into.

District officials did acknowledge that Young was already working under a Corrective Action Plan for past performance issues when the sign debacle surfaced.

“Corallo declined to respond when asked whether Young’s salary would be cut as a result of the demotion,” North Jersey reports.

“It’s a personnel matter,” she said. “I’m not going to discuss what it’s about.”

Teague wasn’t trying to provoke district leaders into removing the principal, he said, “I was just trying to say we shouldn’t accept things like this.”

Former student Diana Subota defended Young as a wonderful grammar teacher, though her Facebook post was not very convincing.

“Ms. Young was my Grammer school teacher in 5^th grade and 8^th grade at school #10 and believe me she was one of the best teacher’s I know,” wrote Subota, who apparently now attends Berkeley College.

“She was tough with us when she knew we could better. She never accepted for my class to give her anything less then our best.

“I do understand as a business owner you have to pay attention to all things in a company, but knowing Ms. Young, she would have had that corrected had she seen it, but to demote her for another person’s mistake is wrong.”

“She is one of the rare who actually cares for her students. And sorry to say this, good luck finding many teachers or Principles like that in Paterson.”