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Road workers in the US state of North Carolina recently revealed that they should have paid more attention in class. While painting a warning on a resurfaced section of roadway alerting drivers to a nearby school, the workers instead wrote shcool.
February 21, 2012 Read time: 1 min
Road workers in the US state of North Carolina recently revealed that they should have paid more attention in class. While painting a warning on a resurfaced section of roadway alerting drivers to a nearby school, the workers instead wrote shcool. The company responsible for the mistake said that this would be corrected. It is not clear if the workers were given lines as punishment for their error.

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