The Department Of Education Can’t Spell W.E.B. Du Bois And Twitter Is Losing It

The new Betsy DeVos-led Department of Education is off to a rough start. The agency took to Twitter in an attempt to highlight African-American icon W.E.B Du Bois and misspelled his last name. Not only was his name misspelled during Black History Month, but the department sent out a follow-up apology tweet, and ‘apologies’ was spelled wrong as well.

Of course, Twitter had a ball with this one.

1. Timing is everything.

In case you were holding onto hope @BetsyDeVos wouldn't ruin everything. The Dept. of Ed misspelled DuBois... during #BlackHistoryMonth. https://t.co/dBI3g53gRP
— W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) February 12, 2017

2. #NewAbnormal

No small irony that the typos come from the Department of EDUCATION's account. Welcome to the new abnormal. https://t.co/HcNajlL8i8
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) February 12, 2017

3. It surely does feel like it.

So the US Dept. Of Education misspelled W.E.B. DuBois name earlier, then made a misspelling in their apology tweet. Is America being punked? pic.twitter.com/C7wbyQuUh6
— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) February 12, 2017

4. #DeVosEffect

Turns out not only did EDUCATION Dept. misspell DuBois, they misspelled their apology too. #IsOurChildrenLearning https://t.co/Nt8WjQ0wYR
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) February 12, 2017