There are nine teaching days left before the end of the term. Before grades are due. Since exams are cancelled this year, it makes things more difficult. Every year I remind the student that I am not here to give them a gold star for what they can already do, for for natural talent, but…
When I left I packed everything that was mine into cardboard boxes and lined them up in the hallway. I was waiting for him to say, Wait-a-minute. Let’s not do this.