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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Are you smarter than a first grader?


My 6-year-old daughter’s homework assignments always create an interesting dilemma. She can handle most of them just fine, and it’s important that kids do their own homework and learn from mistakes. Parents must fight the temptation to give them the correct answer and make sure they get an "A" or a smiley face or a sticker or whatever.
But I couldn’t have given her the answer to her latest assignment even if I tried, because apparently daddy is just a big stupidhead.
The homework was editing skills. She had to fix two things wrong with this sentence: "quit the swim club with he." The obvious answer is "He quit the swim club." But what about the "with"?

One solution is "He quit swimming with the club", but that’s techically three things wrong: capitalization, -ing, and arrangement of the words.
It’s kind of upsetting when you can’t figure out a first-grader’s editing homework AND YOU’RE AN EDITOR!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doesn't simply DELETING the "with" count as an edit?

7:00 PM 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Um -- doesn't DELETING the "with" count as an edit?

7:50 PM 

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