Last week (we hope) of "Will Willie graduate?"
So Willie turned in his English paper. The teacher read it, and immediately went to his plagiarism tool to see if he copied his paper. This made Willie mad, that someone would challenge his authenticity, especially after all that hard work. Keep in mind Willie has Asperger's, which means it is hard for him to lie, so that someone would challenge him on this, is very upsetting.
"It's too powerful," said the teacher about Willie's paper. Of course nothing turned up on the plagiarism web site. So Willie passed English!
The teacher is probably one of the finest we have ever encountered, and yet, and yet, there is still that attitude that the more suffering (they call it work) the better. We would suggest:
1. That quality is better than quantity.
2. That the old "we're preparing kids for the tough world out there" is getting pretty ridiculous, undocumented, tiresome, and actually hindering boys' motivation, giving the higher drop out rates.
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