When Less Is More
Oct 30th, 2007 by Shawn Hansen
We’re in the midst of week ten of a sixteen week semester, and last week was midterm time, so over the weekend, the last significant wave of drops took place.
For the better part of yesterday, I had the feeling I was teaching at the Twilight Zone’s main campus.
Several of the students in my classes this semester are repeaters of one type or another: either they’ve taken one level of English from me and are continuing at the next level, or they are repeating a class with me.
The student I once referred to as Ms. Numerous Deaths and Tragedies Girl did it again. Well, sort of.
There weren’t a string of deaths and/or tragedies, she just stopped showing up. And again, she was earning an “A.”
Sigh.