So Much About So Little; So Little About So Much
This is a story about two fathers that I observed and had the opportunity to meet during the time that I had their daughters in my geography class. At the end of a term I had passed out a slip of paper with each students’ scores on it and allowed them to figure out their grades. Most of the students wanted to figure out what they were going to receive for the term. I had already gone through and figured out all of the grades, but it was a good check for the students to also figure out their own grades. Once in a while they came up with a different grade than I had, so we would then go over them together to make sure the grade was correct or change it to make sure it was correct. There was one particular student that didn’t like the grade she had earned. She had come up with the same grade from her scores that I had, but it wasn’t the grade that she wanted. The grade was an A- not an A. The next day her father came to school early and wanted to see me. This was all fine, I sup...