It's Like Time To Stop Saying 'It's Like'

By Geoff Norcross | March 5, 2010 6 a.m. | Updated: June 16, 2010 11:56 p.m. | Portland, OR

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Many high school students use the word “like” way too much, and often inappropriately.

It drives Lisa Nye crazy, and she’s doing something about it.

Lisa Nye teaches social studies at Bend High School. At the beginning of the year, she put up a sign in her classroom.

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