Don't picture this, II
As much as I hate to admit it, I guess jw is right: we seem to have problems with photos. At least this week. For the second day in a row, I'm apologizing for not publishing the right photos. Today we should have published the photographs of all five winners and finalists in the Guilford schools Teacher of the Year contest. Instead, in this morning's story, we only published three photos. And they weren't the top three winners!!!
Photos of all five finalists were e-mailed to us, but as they moved through our system, only three showed up, thanks to a technical problem and a communication lapse. We -- and the school system -- got a lot of calls complaining that we didn't show all the winners, even though they were named in the story. We're running the photos of the two people omitted tomorrow and publishing a full story and photographs in People & Places Sunday.
Compounding the issue in this case is that the winner of the High School Teacher of the Year is from Dudley and, as bad luck would have it, his was one of the photographs left out. We're often accused of having a bias against Dudley -- unfairly, I think; every high school in the system thinks we have a bias against it. No bias here against Dudley or Kernodle, where the other finalist teaches. We simply screwed up.
Read The Chalkboard's post here.
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