Spelling Bee
Holladay Democratic Rep. Carol Moss has become the de facto teacher for many of her House colleagues. Not that her lessons sink in.
At the beginning of each House Public Education Committee meeting during the 2006 Legislature, Chairwoman Margaret Dayton asked Moss to find grammar or diction mistakes -- like saying "nukular" for nuclear or "lamblast" for lambaste. "It's not hard to find things at the Legislature," Moss says.
Moss did her best to correct a spelling error in Sen. Parley Hellewell's prayer in schools resolution, SJR9. She quietly told him someone had incorrectly used "roll" for "role." The mistake still hadn't been fixed when the legislation appeared before the House committee. Moss challenged the members -- some of whom are school teachers -- to find the spelling error in one of the bills on the agenda. By the end of the meeting, no one had caught it.
"Everyone had a good laugh," Moss said.
Although he was embarrassed, Hellewell apparently didn't correct the word before the bill passed the Legislature. Now, legislative attorneys will have to fix it before it goes to governor, and then is handed out to 510,000 public-school students.
It's sort of like teaching teen-agers.
-- Rebecca Walsh
At the beginning of each House Public Education Committee meeting during the 2006 Legislature, Chairwoman Margaret Dayton asked Moss to find grammar or diction mistakes -- like saying "nukular" for nuclear or "lamblast" for lambaste. "It's not hard to find things at the Legislature," Moss says.
Moss did her best to correct a spelling error in Sen. Parley Hellewell's prayer in schools resolution, SJR9. She quietly told him someone had incorrectly used "roll" for "role." The mistake still hadn't been fixed when the legislation appeared before the House committee. Moss challenged the members -- some of whom are school teachers -- to find the spelling error in one of the bills on the agenda. By the end of the meeting, no one had caught it.
"Everyone had a good laugh," Moss said.
Although he was embarrassed, Hellewell apparently didn't correct the word before the bill passed the Legislature. Now, legislative attorneys will have to fix it before it goes to governor, and then is handed out to 510,000 public-school students.
It's sort of like teaching teen-agers.
-- Rebecca Walsh
2 Comments:
Well its a good thing that was taken care, I mean we wouldn't want the wheels to come off.
I think that it is humorous that no one on the committee found the error. All humor aside, the problem is that the lawyers will have to go through it and correct the mistakes that the legislature couldn't find. I would hope our elected leaders are intelligent enough to catch such a thing.
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