One of my son's vocabulary words this week is "pawnshop".

[Lyric]

He's in 5th grade. He has to write three sentences for each word, including that one, for his homework tonight.

:wtf:

[Angry Dragon]

1. In five years where will one find the possessions

of the middle class............??

[Curmudgeoness]

2. I never realized that was one word.

Have they run out of real vocabulary words?

[Lyric]

3. I thought the same thing so I looked it up.

Apparently it can be either. But still...pawnshop? For a 10-year-old? Why not stripjoint or crackhouse? Blah.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Those are on next week's list. nt

[Ilsa]

5. The old compound words for the new middle class:

Pawnshop: where Grandma's heirloom jewelry ended up.
Stripjoint: where Sissy works to make her college tuition.
Crackhouse: where Johnny was arrested and now has to serve three times the sentence of the banker doing blow.

[kentauros]

8. Send him to this site:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=pawnshop

Then he can learn the history of the word and wow his teacher and classmates. After reading the definition, it looks like it even has a connection to pirates :D

[Divameow77]

6. My 2nd grader

recently brought home something from school that asked...

Which US President is not featured on US paper currency?

a. George Washington
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. John F Kennedy Jr.
d. Abraham Lincoln

I get what they were going for but Benjamin Franklin?

[sakabatou]

7. I dunno

Whoever wrote the question though...