Dear Student, It’s Not Your Best Work

It may not be, and that is entirely okay

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When my son was in grade one at six years old, he was sent home with a mundane, repetitive worksheet for homework.

In looking at it, I surmised it was practice for winter French vocabulary as well as colours. One page would say colour the foulard (scarf) jaune (yellow). The next page would say to colour des…