October 12, 2001

Teaching Failure

By PEGGY DUFFY

I'll call her Lucy. I met her two years ago when she took my remedial course in developmental writing. I hesitate to say I taught her because I think Lucy came to my course having already learned all she was capable of learning, at least as far as writing goes. She spoke slowly and haltingly, struggling to string words together in order to articulate her thoughts. At the end of the first class, she shyly handed me a piece of paper. The college asks that students inform the instructor within

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