Sequel

After Tuesday's discussion with Mr. Cleveland it was decided to tell students before the test that it might not be counted and the reasons why. At the morning session there was a burst of spontaneous applause when I said that considering so many students had no material, the test should not be held. I asked them to respond when Mr. Cleveland asked next week if they'd managed to get texts.

However, the afternoon stream was different. At one o'clock Mr. Cleveland came in. He had not been there at the beginning of the morning's "address" but had come in half way through. As a matter of courtesy, I asked him for a few minutes to talk to the class, but was told no. I was "deliberately confusing people." "How?" I asked. I was told that he didn't have time to argue with me. But I wasn't trying to argue—I was trying to get an answer. So how deliberately misleading is it to tell people that probably 25% of them haven't got the prescribed reading for a test, and to ask them to say if they'd managed to get texts?

Rire Scotney