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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (51553)6/20/2002 4:21:36 PM
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Human interest: There was a sophomore in high school back in 1987 who would come in at lunch time and play chess with me when I was a teacher. I figured he didn't have friends his own age and I enjoyed the challenge, since he was pretty good. He always had one of those 700 page sci-fi novels next to him. It seemed like he had a new one every time I saw him. I flipped through one and noticed that the technical vocab was above my head. We had gotten our first computer lab a couple of years earlier and I had seen him in the computer lab after school, once in a while, designing fantasy games.

I learned one day that this kid was being tested to be considered for placement in the Special Ed program. I asked the evaluators why. They told me he was taking freshmen English for the second time because he did not meet the freshman requirements. He did not read "Tale of Two Cities" or turn in home work. His grade point average was a D- and he was only passing courses where the standard was so low that you just had to show up to get a passing grade.

I asked the kid what he was interested in. He slopped hogs on a farm after school and that was all he cared about. I struggled with this for a long time but eventually adjusted to the fact that this kid would never be motivated toward academic achievement in our high school. He kicked butt on the special ed eval btw.
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