So a former student came into the store last night when I was working. We said our mutual "hello" quite cordially as I rang up her items despite the fact that she failed my class last fall. She mentioned that she took French I again in the summer and made an "A." I congratulated her in friendly fashion. She added, "Yeah, it was the online workbook that messed me up in your class. We didn't have to do it in the summer."
Yeah, it MUST have been the online workbook... Makes perfect sense that a component worth a whopping 10% of her grade would have taken her down to a 37 final average and kept her from getting an "A" chez moi. It's highly unlikely her not turning in any of the oral assignments had anything to do with it, and it certainly couldn't have been the fact that she was absent 15 out of 45 class days, missing not one but two chapter tests and one in-class composition in the process.
You know, it kind of makes you feel good inside when you see a student like that succeed when they try so hard and that one darn component in the course just refuses to let them get ahead.
And on the teaching side of the picture... Wow. Somehow moments like this remind me of Just How Worthwhile it all is.
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