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Some people are morning people; they thrive in the morning and less so (or not at all) in the later part of the day. Other people are night owls; they’re not at their best (or totally wasted) in the morning. Since neither situation is ‘wrong,’ best case is to treat each of us according to our cycles. Of course that’s not practical in a classroom. Private tutoring or homeschooling might better accommodate each student’s personal rhythms…but that’s not practical for a lot of people.
I can relate to Schroeder. By 6th grade most of the girls in school had physically progressed into young womanhood, most of the boys hadn’t were shorter than some of the girls. I happened to go into puberty a year or so ahead of my male classmates, and therefore was the object of many girls affections. I know now that most of those girls were trying to navigate feelings and emotions about guys that were new to them and they were fumbling around about and that I happened to be the closest thing in the class to a man (no longer a boy). Like Schroeder, I wasn’t kind in my refusals. I wish I had been more sensitive to their situation but still gotten them to desist. But I don’t think it would have worked any better than being caustic did. In a year or so, the other boys caught up, started looking like men, and I wasn’t so popular anymore, and life goes on.
Yes. Now it all becomes clear… She was a mostly sweet, passive toddler until she hit the back of her head watching her hero build a block tower. Then her brain-damaged psyche saw her hero CB as a ‘blockhead’…and she became his most ardent nemesis. (Alternate history)
They’re like 6 years-old. Let ’em be kids.