Revealing Statements

My little brother has been teetering on the edge of a B+ in Logic, and is pretty sure that no matter what he does, he's not getting more than an A- this quarter in Logic and he thinks he just doesn't get it.  So my mom asked me to help him with his homework (in a teacherly non-giving-away-answers sort of way).

He asked me while I was in the middle of responding to a paper I was grading, so I said "hang on, and I'll help you as soon as I'm done writing this"

I finished and said I'd help and he started waffling about the whole thing, and I wanted to know if he needed my help or not.

And then this happened:

ME:  Do you need help on your Logic homework or not?

LIL' BRO:  No, I mean, I don't really, I, uh...

ME:  Mom, I'm happy to help, but I'm confused.

MOM:  Cam, did you need help or not? 

LIL' BRO:  Ok, so I don't need help on my homework.  I just get a ton of stuff wrong, but I don't need any help with Logic.

ME [thinking]:  And here we see the problem...




[Incidentally, this is the same boy who did surprisingly poorly on an IQ test.  He was quite defensive about it:

LIL' BRO:  No, It's not that I don't have a high IQ, but you have to answer a lot of the questions, and you're supposed to just skip ones if you're stuck, but I refused to skip any, and I got stuck on one in the beginning, so I didn't answer any of them.

ME:  Doesn't that say something about your IQ?]


I love my brother.  :-D

Disclaimer:  Just in case you're wondering, I think my brother is intelligent.  But he is also a 14 year old boy.  And therefore hilarious.  :-P

Revealing Statements

My little brother has been teetering on the edge of a B+ in Logic, and is pretty sure that no matter what he does, he's not getting more than an A- this quarter in Logic and he thinks he just doesn't get it.  So my mom asked me to help him with his homework (in a teacherly non-giving-away-answers sort of way).

He asked me while I was in the middle of responding to a paper I was grading, so I said "hang on, and I'll help you as soon as I'm done writing this"

I finished and said I'd help and he started waffling about the whole thing, and I wanted to know if he needed my help or not.

And then this happened:

ME:  Do you need help on your Logic homework or not?

LIL' BRO:  No, I mean, I don't really, I, uh...

ME:  Mom, I'm happy to help, but I'm confused.

MOM:  Cam, did you need help or not? 

LIL' BRO:  Ok, so I don't need help on my homework.  I just get a ton of stuff wrong, but I don't need any help with Logic.

ME [thinking]:  And here we see the problem...




[Incidentally, this is the same boy who did surprisingly poorly on an IQ test.  He was quite defensive about it:

LIL' BRO:  No, It's not that I don't have a high IQ, but you have to answer a lot of the questions, and you're supposed to just skip ones if you're stuck, but I refused to skip any, and I got stuck on one in the beginning, so I didn't answer any of them.

ME:  Doesn't that say something about your IQ?]


I love my brother.  :-D

Disclaimer:  Just in case you're wondering, I think my brother is intelligent.  But he is also a 14 year old boy.  And therefore hilarious.  :-P

No, I really didn't say that, Mr. Principal!

Take-home test essay question: "What is the value of studying pagan philosophies? Why are we studying them at this Christian school?"  [etc.]

First sentence of answer: "The value of pagan studies are many"


And my mom was his English teacher last year, so you can blame the s/v agreement issue on her.

No, I really didn't say that, Mr. Principal!

Take-home test essay question: "What is the value of studying pagan philosophies? Why are we studying them at this Christian school?"  [etc.]

First sentence of answer: "The value of pagan studies are many"


And my mom was his English teacher last year, so you can blame the s/v agreement issue on her.

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He's been the head coach of Penn State for twice as long as I've been alive, and makes me a little sad to see his great career end on such a terrible note, and, frankly, to see his whole record tarnished.

That being said, I am very, very glad to see that Joe Pa was summarily fired, and to see that our society still takes paedophilia seriously.

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He's been the head coach of Penn State for twice as long as I've been alive, and makes me a little sad to see his great career end on such a terrible note, and, frankly, to see his whole record tarnished.

That being said, I am very, very glad to see that Joe Pa was summarily fired, and to see that our society still takes paedophilia seriously.