"Teaching and learning is taking place,..."

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Is our children learning? The article is about a school in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Effort to Stretch Curriculum Comes Up Short at Largo High

By Nelson Hernandez
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 20, 2008; Page A01

This school year, Rajon Mozee, a junior at Largo High School, has attended a Chinese class where the teacher doesn't speak Chinese and a computer graphics class where he says the students have never touched a keyboard.
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"You can be frustrated, but you look at your options and keep moving on," said Largo's principal, Angelique Simpson Marcus. "Both programs are popular, and we would like to retain them."
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Computer graphics became a class in sketching. Rajon showed an assignment in which he drew a CD cover by hand. He described another assignment in which he was asked to describe the color of yawning.

"I don't think the color of yawning has anything to do with computers," Rajon said.

Simpson Marcus said that students were learning how to use the computers in the graphics class, and that the long-term substitute in Chinese was following a curriculum set out by the head of the foreign language department. "Teaching and learning is taking place," she said.

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1. The color of yawning? That would be yellow. nt