NORTH LAWNDALE — Last Wednesday was payday for the "employees" of teacher Dorothea Tobin at North Lawndale College Prep.
The twice-a-month ritual — in which a dozen or so kids crowd in her office waiting for a white envelope — is the result of one of the charter school's most popular after-school activities: knitting.
It might seem counterintuitive in an era of videogames and iPhones, but the activity has been popular with dozens of boys and girls over the past five years.
On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Ben Woodard discusses why the kids love the class, and how some are taking what they do in class all the way to the bank:
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