JUST WORDS
by DAVID F. SHERMAN Managing Editor
Members of the Sweet Home Central Board of Education last week discussed resources designed to build vocabulary. Students should develop a repertoire of more than 7,000 words, they were told by Assistant Superintendent for Instruction Tony Day. Shortly thereafter, Superintendent Geoff Hicks described a previous academic intervention program at one of the schools as "jiggy." Board member Doug Galli later chimed in during a different discussion with the adjectives "hairy" and "nifty." Jiggy, hairy and nifty - aren't those the names of the Marx Brothers?