A picture appearing to show one child's wild answer to a spelling homework assignment has drawn an astonished response on social media—but not for the reasons you might have thought.

LESSON PANNED: The parents of a Flushing 5-year-old were alarmed by the examples “gun” and “rob” in this spelling homework assignment brought home by their daughter from PS 201.

Prosecutors say the aunt of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy fatally beat the toddler with a belt after he refused to complete a spelling assignment.. Christen Dale was arraigned Friday on manslaughter ...