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- THE WEEK, Page 30NATIONIt's a Blackboard Jungle Out There
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- After 12-year-old student William Figueroa finished writing
- out the word potato during a spelling bee at the Luis Munoz
- Rivera School in Trenton, New Jersey, Vice President Dan Quayle,
- relying on a flash card, urged the youngster to add an "e".
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- "I knew he was wrong," said Figueroa later. "He probably
- feels embarrassed about that, probably mad a little bit . . .
- but I hope he can take it."
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