TA confession: I'm sorry, but most of your children (my students) are average

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D’s very easy Honors English where she learned nothing and got an easy A was extremely time consuming because of the requirement to read “boring and stupid” novels, her words. She much rather would do something else and learn more, but it was a requirement for her major.

And yet there were probably other students in the same class who found those same novels to be fascinating and thought-provoking. Such is the nature of (particularly) well-designed class assignments, after all.