As the school year winds down two publications count down the days. The Web Pages of Utterback says that graduation is 25 days away. South Sisters has school ending in 23 days. So why is there a difference? Is there one publication that is inaccurate? Are both wrong?
You would have to think that a group named after the genius Utterback would be correct. It would also be safe to think that a group containing two people who love going to the beach so much they skip school (Andrea and Heather), would be accurate in a countdown to when they can beach it up without missing deadlines. I decided to take a closer look.
The first thing that I noticed was that Utterback is counting down days until graduation and South Sisters were counting to the end of school. Graduation is on June 20 and the last day of school is June 18. Technically, there is a makeup day for finals on the 21, but we will go with the 18 since that is when most students get out.
I found that The Web Pages of Utterback was accurate with its countdown. Graduation is indeed 25 days away. The South Sisters also had an accurate countdown, as the last day of school is 23 days away.
The reason why there has been confusion is because these two publications have two different countdowns. If readers are to quickly read the numbers, however, it could be quite confusing.
I recommend that these publications change the wording of the countdowns so that it is more clear to readers. This post is making me realize that summer is creeping up on me fast, not at all a bad thing.
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