misprepare

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ prepare

Verb

misprepare (third-person singular simple present misprepares, present participle mispreparing, simple past and past participle misprepared)

1. To prepare badly; to provide inadequate or inappropriate preparation.
   • 2003, Neal A. Glasgow, Cathy D. Hicks, What Successful Teachers Do, page 119:

     Concluding, the paper presents a context of teacher preparation with an emphasis on techniques and standards that tends to misprepare teachers in addressing the needs of an increasingly immigrant student population.

   • 2015, Rand J. Spiro, Michael DeSchryver, Michelle Schira Hagerman, Reading at a Crossroads?:

     To do otherwise is to ignore the bounties of technology—a culpable neglect—and to misprepare her for life and work after school.

   • 2018, Karl H. Pribram, Brain and Values: Is A Biological Science of Values Possible?:

     In this respect, then, our schools essentially mislead and misprepare students by developing and rewarding a set of skills that will be important in later life, but much less important than they are in school.

   • 2019, David Weinberger, Everyday Chaos:

     Affluent societies routinely over-, under-, and misprepare without even recognizing them as failures, just as no one cares that a spice shelf holds an undisturbed jar of cream of tartar that will be a silent witness as we marry, we have children, and then our children have grandchildren who one day ask, "What's that dusty bottle of white powder for, Gramps?"