Please understand that I don’t intend to make fun of the school or this situation, because it is evident throughout the page that intentions are in the right place. In Los Angeles, there are plenty of people for whom English is not a first language. And in any urban high school there are certainly bigger problems to solve besides some typographical errors on a webpage.

But the point is this: that’s no excuse. If you can’t afford a spell checking program, hand it to your coworker. Even one editing pass will help root out these errors and will go a long way towards cleaning up your document.

If your school is public and underfunded, turn it into a classroom project. Now you are teaching English grammar, helping your school save money, and communicating the importance of doing a project well. You’re helping create a civic pride in your school, and showing your students how to project a positive and respectable image, and to do good work, even with a lack of resources.