I probably wouldn't, not because I was afraid of him so much as because what would be the point? (I mean, even before now.) Failing him would prove that the system had standards? Failing him would teach him that he didn't have to improve? Failing him would...mostly fail him as a person, I guess.
Love the way you think McHugh. Heard you're a swell teacher too. And that you live in Texas!
Interesting media response--at least on radio--about mental illness vis-a-vis people like Cho. Favorite exchange: "The system is broken." "There is no system."
Also, someone called for a "civil-rights" kind of movement for the mentally ill. It'll be fun to see how they rally all the depressives out of bed...
Author of poetry collection serious red (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1996) and a limited edition called queen of cups (Burning Press, 1993). Essays in Ordering the Storm (CSU Poetry Center) and elsewhere. Poems published in American Poetry Review, Barn Owl Review, Hobble Creek Review, Whiskey Island, DMQ Review, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, wicked alice, ArtCrimes, Harpur Palate, Gargoyle (#53), mirage period(ical), Taproot, Cleveland Slam Anthology, and others I can't remember or lost track of. Published in several Cleveland anthologies. Received two Ohio Arts Council individual fellowships and a memorable residency at Headlands Center for the Arts. Used to slam with the big boys. Live on a great lake, held in abeyance.
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No surprise he was a fiction writer.
And a bad one at that. Could he really have been graduating with such poor skills? (I guess that question is silly now...)
Would you fail him?
I probably wouldn't, not because I was afraid of him so much as because what would be the point? (I mean, even before now.) Failing him would prove that the system had standards? Failing him would teach him that he didn't have to improve? Failing him would...mostly fail him as a person, I guess.
Love the way you think McHugh. Heard you're a swell teacher too. And that you live in Texas!
Interesting media response--at least on radio--about mental illness vis-a-vis people like Cho. Favorite exchange:
"The system is broken."
"There is no system."
Also, someone called for a "civil-rights" kind of movement for the mentally ill. It'll be fun to see how they rally all the depressives out of bed...
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