JS: Most of my writing students are first or second year students just trying to get their AA or AS (a few AAS).  For many of them, what we teachers tell them slides around on top and drips off like milk on syrup.  I’ve even had some students in 101 who did okay (C or C- or something), but then get in 102 and remember nothing we did in 101 the semester before (I can’t bring myself to mention the ones who make an A in 101 and tank in 102).  Somehow our education system has fostered the idea in our students’ heads that what you learn in a class is just for that class.  It’s so frustrating!

By the way, the Onion suicide note article was priceless.