Last Wednesday, 11-year-old Geniya sat in a corner of the library at Ockley Green Middle School in North Portland, where she’ll be a sixth grader this fall, intently concentrating on spelling the word “prince.” It’s a deceptively tricky word. The “ce” combination at the end could just as easily be an “s,” the “i” in the middle could perhaps masquerade as an e and it’s not unreasonable to assume that there is a “t” hidden in the middle, a la the word “prints.”
