LACK OF CREATIVITY.

I went to judge 6th grade history project presentations this afternoon at a school in Oak Park today. Most of the presentations were wonderful, and to our amusement some of them really sucked. I was grading as consistently as I could, sometimes feeling I was too hard on the kids with my comments. However, meeting up with another judge (my age) to compare and average scores, I realized that I was pretty generous.

I laughed. She was even laughing at herself because I kept saying, "Oh my God Kari!" and reading things like, "NO CREATIVITY" "NO SUPPORT FOR THESIS" "REPETITIVE VISUALS" "SUPPORT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THESIS" I had to draw happy faces and exclamation points after her comments so the children reading their feedback WON'T CRY!. (that made her laugh even more)

It was funny, but I agreed with her on most.