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Rasheedah, a fourth grader at Blackstone Square Community School in Boston, says she attends the Keylatch program sponsored by Phillips Brooks House, because it provides her with after school tutoring while her mother is away from home...
...before Christmas a fifth-grade boy arrived at his school in Chicago one morning toting a concoction of household cleaners, including bleach, and poured it into his teacher's coffee. The teacher did not drink the brew, and the boy's classmates turned him in. Last week an eighth- grader in Washington shot a school guard in the stomach after he broke up a fight between rival gangs...
Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption post the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...