This week I have enjoyed wonderful class discussions on remarkable literature, with students contributing valuable insights right and left, and I have read online discussions and papers demonstrating that they get it--they really get it! So why do I keep obsessing over one student who really doesn't?
Maybe because I'm dealing with cluelessness on a level I've rarely encountered. Imagine that a student wheedles well enough to persuade you to overlook your no-late-papers policy just this once, and then imagine that the student finally turns in a piece of writing mentioning mayonnaise where the story under discussion features manure, and then you Google it and discover the same error spread all over a prominent online summary of the work in question.
At this point that student is up to his knees is something, but it sure ain't mayonnaise.
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