And they turned in better work than I'd ever seen before. It's tempting to be grouchier than usual because this has turned into a big pain in my ass during a (brief) break before my summer classes start up. But I tried to chill out yesterday by emailing a couple kids to congratulate them for writing such good papers. That helped.


>She processed this for about a second or two. She nodded her
>head and said, "That would do it." She then stood up and
>walked out of the room. I never heard from her again.

Oof. Never hearing from her again is a bit of a bummer, but that list of classroom deficiencies is probably something she needed to iron out with her son, not with her son AND you.