Tonight we got a happy visit from Uncle Matt. This always causes revelry and excitement from the boys. Tonight his visit came during homework time and Matt found himself caught up in looking through Isaac's graded papers. Now, Isaac likes to organize his folder for easy scrutiny of 100 percent papers. He puts all 100's on the left of the folder and all other grades on the right.
Isaac, as he should be, is very proud of those 100's and especially proud of his commended performance on the TAKS test. (He only missed one!) There Isaac was standing proud and commenting on all his scholarly achievements when the conversation turned to the right side of the folder where the A's, B's and C's are all lumped together. Matt made the suggestion that if Isaac moved all the A's together it would make that stack of papers really big. Isaac very seriously considered this statement.
Then he turned to Matt and stated in the resigned voice of a boy coming to grips with his limitations that sometimes intelligence just doesn't match his knowledge.
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