[El Blanco]

One of the many jokes in and about the NYC public school system is that teachers will bring in copies of the Times and hand them out to students.

Research? No.

Study writing styles? No.

Expand vocabulary? Sort of.

the assignment is to put the students into smaller group and each group has to produce a page of large words that were either mispelt or out of context.

I have a few friends teaching in the system and they say that the students never come up short and rarely repeat each other.