Word: grades
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Part III: Nothing is more crucial at the end of the paper or exam than actually assigning a grade. Some TFs choose to assign grades arbitrarily, an atavism which dates back to a primitive TF life cycle in which TF pupas, scattered to hostile environments by lack of grant money, would randomly mutate into either TFs or financial consultants. While this approach is encouraged, a finely tuned Bad TF can grade papers with a combination of whimsy and style. At the end of the paper or exam, write "Nice Work." Below that, write "B+." Then, in a different-colored pencil...
What makes this case even more fantastical is that the girl's younger sister and older brother both are enrolled in educational institutions. Her brother, who attended public school, is now taking college classes; her younger sister is in second grade. Yet neither of them reported to any authorities that their sister was just sitting at home, and no authorities found...
Like most people my age, I remember the moment well. It was January, 1986, and I was in third grade. My teacher, Mr. Cohen, had been summoned into the hall; seconds later, he returned to make a pronouncement to the class: "Something terrible has happened...
...then one third-grade girl spoke up and said,~ 'It sounds good, but when a student doesn't do homework, then it isn't just the student that suffers but the whole class,"' Nehring said. "Starting from the older students, there was a wave of applause...
...private schools if Crew didn't reinstate Zangara. But the parents refuted the image that they were pampered yuppies with money to burn, pointing out that the school has working-class families too. They also say that the loss of one teacher would make the size of each fourth-grade class 10 students larger than the state average. Said P.S. 41 father Fred Moshary: "Parents anywhere would have done the same thing." Those words were prophetic. At week's end, parents of second-graders in nearby Queens had raised $20,000 toward saving a teacher from the budget ax. They...