Principals and teachers are well aware that the state can detect erasures, and only a handful of classes are flagged each year, Ms. Jones said.
At the handful of classes I attended in a church hall in Tottenham, I saw all types of people getting to grips with the flexibility of their joints.
What started 25 years ago as a handful of classes at colleges in New Hampshire has grown into a network of programs that span the globe and can offer luxurious accommodations.
Mr. Francis, 29, is not a scientist, and has taken only a handful of classes at a community college, but he is a self-educated computer programmer from San Jose, Calif., who just happens to be comfortable, he says, discussing the theories and applications of mathematical physics, vector algebra and calculus.
The city's child welfare system, whose legal obligation to foster children ends when they are not much beyond adolescence, does not, by its own admission, give the departing youngsters much to work with: a handful of classes in things like cooking and resume writing, a check for $750 and up to three years of modest stipends for rent.
Since ClassPass users have different usage patterns — some may only go to a handful of classes while others might hit a class every day — a flat monthly rate ultimately meant that low-usage users were paying a premium to subsidize high-usage customers, who may individually be costing ClassPass money.
For a handful of classes, hundreds, or even thousands, of motif instances are known [ 11, 48, 49].
