When did you last have a helpful problem?

Maybe we are graduating students who don't know how to write a coherent sentence because their teachers can't accomplish that task themselves. A local elementary school teacher of superior students was quoted in an article in the newspaper this past week: "The kids have to scrapbook everything and then they have a six page paper they have to write addressing all the problems that are going to help the community." Since when do problems "help the community"? Did she mean to say, "The kids have to write a six page paper offering helpful solutions to the problems the community faces"? I honestly don't know. I wonder if she does, or if she was just trying to say something that sounded important.

"A healing look at life." The Paris News; February 19, 2009; P. 1.