Perhaps the weirdest aspect of all of this is that we expect students going
out of high school to have metamorphasized over the course of what is
usually the last summer of leisure in their _lives_, into "serious students"
who are ready to apply the skills they have learned to more rigorous tasks,
without much of a transition. For those of us who teach composition, who
daily emphasize the importance of transition in writing sentences and
paragraphs, it is ironic that we cannot provide our students with practice
in what we preach for transition within their own lives.
On Jan 19, Ken Wright wrote:
> I try to be sympathetic toward secondary school teachers who work at least
>as hard as we do without anything near our academic freedom.