Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suggests that if Melzer stays, the classroom might quickly empty. The question he'd ask Melzer's defenders, he says, is "how they would feel about their child being in that person's care." Not pleased, comes the reply from some vocal Bronx Science parents and students. Says 10th-grader Sammy Kim: "It doesn't matter if he does it or not, it's just that he advocates having sex with little boys. It's . . . it's his mind." A Bronx Science student's mother, who wishes to be identified only as Kate, is more direct: "He's a pervert...
...done it," says Lona Mott, a ninth-grader at Franklin Area High School, from which Shingledecker graduated last spring. On Halloween two years ago, she recalls, she and 20 other kids took turns arranging themselves like sardines across a road. When they saw headlights, most bolted, but a few stayed pat. Says Mott: "All my friends were doing it, so I did it. I wasn't even thinking of getting...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless the grader is of the Wheat-stone bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set--those people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember there is a person, a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does that person want to read...
...illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grades" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle ages have become too vast...
...worth a good extra five points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying if you try. We did. Best wishes, A Grader This letter first ran on January...