chewing the fat

the disgust was evident Why would you say something like that?

Screw your sneer  Because its true

                                     Had more children flunked a grade teacher tells the childs parents I’m keeping them back for their own good

Id have told the kid

                     Youre be back in Third again next Fall A year older than all your classmates

Im tellingya flunking incentivised me

                                         I wasnt a good studenthad to work my ass off  but motherfucker if I was going to be left behind Thadbe a cold day in Hell

But you must understand . .

. . No I don

            I helped counseled kids in junior high to think about classes they would enter as freshman I saw from their transcripts that almost forty percent werent reading at grade level I asked an administrator if these kids were being promoted would they receive help at the high school to bolster their reading I was told there was a remedial program but only twentyfive percentall they had time for twentyfive percent of the children who performed worst

I was gobsmacked

                       So  you understand

I hear you. What I’m saying is children who would be faile . .

. . Flunked

It isn’t necessary to split hairs over wor . .

. . It is

        Everyone fails at something    Flunked Not a euphemism

Whatever.

    What I’m saying is . . is that you’re not taking into account their self-esteem.

Which is why I said

                      Self-esteem  Ya either got it or ya don

Its a driver

            If I didnt value myself as I did as a boywhen I was struggling I coud have thrown my hands up said Don matter Ill be promoted

Can you imagine years later the coddled has a kid and the kid says to their father Would you help me read, please?and they cant  Daddy cant read

                               Healthy dose of self-esteem

1440,  Saturday,  12  10. 24

1030,  day-between-2-Ts,  30  11. 24