Creative Writing at It's Best

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[gcruse]

at the Copa? The Copa Cabana?"

Now, there's an orchestral cue if I ever saw one.
It's a musical!   ROFL!!!

[Argh]

I shudder to think of the things you've been told before.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I make you shudder?.........

[Cathryn Crawford]

Bring out the boys and girls dressed in white to sing!

[A_perfect_lady]

You caught me red-handed. I was steering the three of us into MOULIN ROUGE territory as hard as I could. Love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love!

[Argh]

Only in my nightmares.

Sheesh, Whyisa, you should have seen THAT coming. :^)

[A_perfect_lady]

Bring out the boys and girls dressed in white to sing!

We could be heroes.... just for one day!

[Cathryn Crawford]

This is not Moulin Rouge, and it's not Chicago, either. :D

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I shudder to think of the things you've been told before.

Fortunately, my friend, you don't think often.........

[Argh]

Thinking gives me the royal heebie jeebies. Kind of like exercise. I'd make a great liberal but I've got too much sense.

[Argh]

Yes, yes, I know, "great liberal" is an oxymoron...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Actually I was wondering why you haven't been kicked off of here using such filthy language as "liberal"..........

[A_perfect_lady]

Well, I didn't see Chicago. I couldn't handle that many bobs and sequined thongs all at one time.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

And who does this serve, giving high grades to quitters? The indulgence of the teacher? It certainly doesn't serve the best interest of the students.

The teacher gives an "A" to the most entertaining submittal. And how is this fair to the students who worked harder and made an honest attempt to perform an extremely difficult task -- subordinating the PERSONAL creative process to the immediate censure and misdirection of a co-writer. Writing is an intensely personal act. Writing with another person requires humility on the part of both persons. Yet the teacher rewarded the arrogant pair of quitters.

Again, who does this serve? How does this advance the interests of the students?

The teacher cheated all other students by rewarding the quitters, merely because the teacher was entertained. I would call on the teacher to keep his guffaws of entertainment privately to himself while he assigns grades using a yard-stick that rewards the skill, perseverence, creativity and hard work of the students.

If I were hiring two employees to work for me, I would rather not hire the two quitters who showed they lacked the perseverence, fortitude, character and resolve to settle their differences and find a way to work with eachother. I would rather have hired two among those who may as well have been tempted to quit but who found a way to complete the assignment.

I am reminded their is a difference between the school and real life, wherin real life you are rewarded based more or less on performance, as viewed through the real filter of workplace politics. But in school, a student's goal is not to master his subject but to please -- indeed, even entertain -- his teacher.

The teacher's giving an "A" to the quitters cheated every other student in that class and I strongly disagree with the teacher's poor judgment.

[gcruse]

It was fun while it lusted!

[Argh]

Oh, I do beg your pardon. I should have said "a great l-word"...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You canucks learn pretty quickly...........lol

[A_perfect_lady]

It was fun while it lusted!

Is this where the bodice rips, the gun goes off, the British officers storm through the door, the clemency letter arrives, the real father shows up, all amnesia disappears, and the sidekick arrives with an extra white horse for sunset-riding-off-in?

[gcruse]

Yes. And as the curtain rushes to center screen like an ocean of musty-smelling orange velvet, the lights come up in the theater, Brent turns in his cushioned seat towards Cathy and blurts out, "What the hell happened to your hair?"

[William Terrell]

It serves no educational purpose at all. It's not meant to. People reward serendipity. That's just how it is. They always have and they always will. In this case, these youngsters gave us a gift of which laughter is the lesser part.

They searched for a class exercise grade and ended up giving us a stark image of our relationships, black on white, that even the sleepist eye can see.

Correct their mistakes the next exercise; they'll get theirs. This one goes to the Smithsonian.