The newest alumni from Waterloo West High School will not be keeping the diplomas they received on Tuesday night.

In a message sent by Andy Miehe, West High School Principal, he acknowledges a printing mistake added the letter "k" to the end of Waterloo in the date line of the diplomas. He says the mistake was not caught by the vendor or staff at West High School that looked at the diplomas.

One student says he's not upset and just happy to be done with high school and ready to move on to college. Ben Hadzidedic says some have been posting photos with funny captions about graduating from "Waterlook" West.

"Everyone thinks it's really funny just because you wouldn't expect that to happen, and everyone's just been talking about it," Hadzidedic said.

Miehe says they have been in contact with Herff Jones, the vendor who printed the diplomas, and they are working to fix the mistake.

In his statement, Miehe says, "I want to apologize to each of our graduates and their families for the mistake and I would like to assure you that a solution is in the works. West High is in the process of re-sending our graduation list to Herff Jones so that they can reprint each of our diplomas. Once they are reprinted the new and corrected diplomas will be shipped directly to our graduates."

He says the process should take about two weeks.

Herff Jones, the company that printed the diplomas, says it takes full responsibility for the typo.

In an email sent to families, it said "We are working diligently to reproduce each diploma with the correct spelling at no cost, which will be directly mailed to each graduate."