{"id":29893,"date":"2006-08-31T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/08\/31\/the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders-contributions-to-class-discussion\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T10:00:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T10:00:37","slug":"the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders-contributions-to-class-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060831-37\/?p=29893","title":{"rendered":"The wisdom of seventh graders: Contributions to class discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (In the continuing <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/04\/03\/567321.aspx\"> sporadic series on the wisdom of seventh grade students<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p> My friend the seventh grade teacher once had to deal with a class that had gotten out of hand by assigning the students a short essay in which they had to address three questions: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How am I contributing to class? <\/li>\n<li>How am I detracting from class? <\/li>\n<li>How can I contribute more while detracting less? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> One of the more disruptive students answered the questions thus: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How am I contributing to class?<br \/>     &#8220;I tell jokes.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>How am I detracting from class?<br \/>     &#8220;Sometimes I talk out of turn.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>How can I contribute more while detracting less?<br \/>     &#8220;Tell better jokes.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In the continuing sporadic series on the wisdom of seventh grade students.) My friend the seventh grade teacher once had to deal with a class that had gotten out of hand by assigning the students a short essay in which they had to address three questions: How am I contributing to class? How am I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,109],"class_list":["post-29893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-the-wisdom-of-seventh-graders"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>(In the continuing sporadic series on the wisdom of seventh grade students.) My friend the seventh grade teacher once had to deal with a class that had gotten out of hand by assigning the students a short essay in which they had to address three questions: How am I contributing to class? How am I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}