Word: classe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SPAD: I got a C+ on a midterm freshman year in a core class...
...Which class...
...SPAD: OK. I think the nerdiest thing about me is that I always seem to end up running around. People always stop me in our yard and ask me where I'm running. But I'm never really going anywhere. I'm going to class or something, but for no particular reason am I running. The least nerdy thing is probably...I think...I'm trying to think what 'least nerdy' would be exactly...
...Alberto works Thursday to Monday from 11:45 a.m. to 8:45 p.m. On Monday and Thursday mornings, he takes a class in English composition at the extension school. He drives a limousine for Commonwealth Limousine Service on his two days off to the airport, hotels, New Hampshire and other far-flung destinations. "Driving here is the worst," he said. "In New York, at least the roads are one way, but, here there are lots of rotaries. It's very dangerous. There will be three exits, and you have to memorize the route, or you just go around, and around...
...York City public schools allegedly started "helping" their students with statewide tests, when kids actually had to know something about reading, writing and arithmetic to get passed to the next grade. For the last five years, claims special investigator Edward Stancik, some kids have just waltzed into class, written their test answers on notebook paper, and sat back as their teachers filled in the correct answers on the little bubble forms. And then, clutching their students' miraculously improved test results and passing rates, teachers and principals got raises, promotions and general acclaim...