A
Oh, don't say that.
B
Nope. And I would never had said so either. Uh, but, uh, they managed to get through, although not always with flying colors. Uh, in fact, one of the incidents I was thinking of that my son had. Uh, he was struggling with senior English and I had a meeting with the, uh, vice principal and the English instructor, and, uh, she showed me a paper that he had just handed in. And she told me what she had requested. And I read it and while it had, you know, a few little grammatical problems, it wasn't very long and so forth. I thought it had some nice, well thought out, uh, parts to it.
A
Uh-huh.
B
She gave him an F on that paper. And I thought, well now, here you have a student who is trying to pass, who is struggling with your subject and you give them an F on something that doesn't seem that bad to me. What are you telling that student? You're telling them that, hey, you might as well forget it, you know.
A
Well, you see, I think that, that harks right back to the elementary and junior high years. Because I have a stepson now who's twenty-five and, uh, I was just absolutely shocked, uh, the first time that I saw his schoolwork. Uh, I remember being, you know, taught, and I think, you know, you have to teach how to write an answer and, you know, how to construct a thought process.
B
Uh-huh.