Why are 15-year-olds asking the kinds of questions that 5-year-olds used to ask?  Schools have a major incentive to pass their students, even when they don’t deserve to pass and matriculate to the next grade. They don’t want their school’s graduation rate to be low. If only 60% of high school seniors graduate, the school …
Seguir leyendo 10th-grade student asks his teacher why he has to capitalize his last name: ‘He hadn’t capitalized any proper nouns. He insisted his paper didn’t need fixing and was perfect.’