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March 07, 2006

your friend, the period.

lately we've been having junior high school kids take the high school entrance exams at my school. the three biggest parts of it are: japanese, math, and english. now, to give me something to do, they asked me to sit and help advise them on various questions.

particulary the free answer parts.

yamaguchi sensei: hey jeff, question!
me: yes yamaguchi sensei.
y: what do you think of this?
m: /reads: country is.
m: huh... well, that's kind of right...
y: well you see, the question is `does ken's uncle live in the city or the country?`
m: ah... well, where is it?
y: in the country. so i'm going to give him 1 point cause he wrote `country.`
m: ok... /grabsanothertest-flipsittoananswerwhereshealsogave1pt
m: now, you see this answer?

ken's uncle live in country.

y: yes.
m: you gave this one point... so, how can you give `country is.` one point? that means it's the same quality as this sentence /points.
y: but maybe he meant `country is... where my uncle lives?`
m: he put a period there. that's where it kind of, you know, stops.
y: ...ah.

these are my potential students next year /joy!

Posted by Jeff at March 7, 2006 03:17 PM

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Heh, you got to help "advise" with the entrance exam grading too? Wasn't that a fun experience? XD

And hooray for helping grading finals being over. I had a one-on-one interview part, with each of my 80 ichinensei. To say it had gotten repetitive by the end would be an understatement. -_-;

Posted by: Oma_Travis at March 13, 2006 09:55 AM

the best was when my supervisor just made me sit there doing nothing for 30 minutes. i asked if i could be productive and finish grading my finals. i got a firm `no` and that was the end of that. and i have 241 ichinensei ; ; and interviews are spring quarter /cry!

Posted by: jcc at March 15, 2006 01:03 PM

the end.

March 07, 2006

your friend, the period.

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