It's Apparently Pandemic

I go to my DD's school, and there's a story the teacher wrote on the white board about a "goul".
I go down the hallway and see the contract for behavior of another class posted on the wall, and the teacher has written "careing" as one of the adjectives.
If I sign DD out early for some reason, the form asks me for "students name".

Irony: book fair is this week at her school, and "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" is on sale. I think I'm going to buy everyone there a copy!