Doh!

And the bonehead move of the week goes to: Me.

Yes, that's right. We had to run a correction on my story this week. Believe me, I am not proud of it. But if I pay all this attention to elected officials and their screws up, I guess it's only fair I admit mine.

So, earlier this week I quoted a school official who spoke on behalf of Assemblyman Mike Eng's proposed bill that would promote tolerance in the classroom. The only problem: The quote I put in the paper was not the quote that she said. Here's how I wrote it in the story:

"We think that it is mandatory to teach kids about intolerance," said Adele Andrade-Stadler, President of the Alhambra Unified School District.

What it should have said was, "We think it is mandatory to teach kids about tolerance."

Doh!

The dumb thing is that I wrote it down correctly. My wires just got crossed when I was writing the story. And the really dumb thing is that if I would have been thinking when I re-read what I put in the story, I would have realized that that didn't make sense. I can only imagine what lessons would be taught in the "How to be intolerant class."