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January 8, 2006
Killer Tests
During finals week I discovered that I am responsible for the deaths of untold elderly citizens. You see it seems like everytime I give a test a grandparent dies.
Here's how it works: Step 1) I give an exam. Step 2) One or more of my students doesn't attend. Step 3) Invariably some of them inform me that they couldn't make it to the exam because they had to attend their grandparent's funeral. Step 4) I'm not impressed and I don't let them take the exam since they should have told me of their absence ahead of time. (Last I checked funerals were planned in advance, not secretive and spontaneous.)
But now I realize I have been missing the point. For years I have just been passing off these "passing ons" as unfortunate coincidences, but now I have come to see the light. I give exams, grandparents die. Could it be any simpler than that. Perhaps grandparents only die when college exams are given? If this is true than my tests are actually killing old people.
Perhaps it's crazy, but it's all the reason I need to decide that I'm certainly not helping my grandkids go to college...
Posted by fstone at January 8, 2006 7:11 PM
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