Transcript:
Joan: Holly, do you want some help with your term paper?
Holly: THAT would be amazing, Aunt Joan.
Joan: Term papers are EASY! Show me what you've got so far...
Holly: Here's 10 pages.
Joan: All this paper is BLANK.
Holly: You said you wanted to help!
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Oh no, Holly, you’re not making your mother’s sister do ALL the work, are you?
psychlady over 11 years ago
Who’s name will go on this one?
emjaycee over 11 years ago
Anyone know what the topic is/was?
lightenup Premium Member over 11 years ago
Term papers are always easy for writers (I think that’s what Joan does). I was always much too concise and blunt to churn out 10 pages of words.
William Bednar Premium Member over 11 years ago
So, will Ms. Wingit offer Holly 1/4 or 1/8 credit when Holly tells her the paper is still not done? Wouldn’t surprise me.
alondra over 11 years ago
Give it up Holly, just accept your failing grade.
Milestheglassguy over 11 years ago
I was thinking about this at the beginning of the story arc: most kids in middle school aren’t writing a 10 page paper on their own. Parents and siblings get roped onto doing most of the proof reading and editing until at least the beginning of high school, and some never stop.
unca jim over 11 years ago
@Miles;Even back in the dark ages of the ’50’s, we weren’t required to do a thousand word essay/report/critique until well into 11th grade, and depending on parents who never graduated high school was not an option. Copy and paste? psh…
9thCapricorn over 11 years ago
I am a teacher and I KNOW 10 pages are just too much for an average middle schooler. 3-4 pages would suffice. Their attention spans are still short and their energy levels are still high. 10 pages would be appropriate for juniors and seniors, readying for college. And did Mrs Wingit TEACH the students HOW to do a paper? It looks like Holly doesn’t know how. I know for fact more and more schools are now skipping teaching how to write a paper in favor of teaching to test to keep the funding to school coming. Teaching how to write a paper is too time consuming and is not on the standards tests – just a short composition of a topic given. Why bother teaching how to write a paper if it is not on the standards test? By the time they hit college, they don’t know how and it is up to the professors to teach them, give them a guideline paper with instructions and hope for the best.
Dr_Fogg over 11 years ago
My wife helps my son with his papers… I keep telling him she isn’t going to college with him and I did all my own papers. Well at least she’s getting A’s which is more than I got. :-)