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The New York Board of Education has revoked 61 diplomas awarded by the Eastern District Senior Academy in Brooklyn and is “reviewing” 113 others after an investigation revealed that the students “earned” them with such classes as Whiffleball theory, flower arranging and bicycle repair. Whiffleball theory? “It was a physical education requirement,” principal Marcia Brevot said through her lawyer. Students who took bicycle repair wrote papers about it, earning them credit for English, science, or art. Flower arranging “taught them botany.” Students were lent out to a local travel agency to answer the phones, for which they got credit in English, social studies, health and music. The school was in “absolute chaos when she walked in, with a 15 year history of failure, violence, no education, dropouts,” Brevot’s lawyer says. “She ended that.” (AP) ...But only on paper.