One issue that I encountered was receiving limited, choppy sentences from my 8th grade students in their comments. Two comments received by my students really bothered me. The question asked was, "1. If you didn't attend the final presentation, why? 2. How do you think the students did without you?" The student wrote, "1. i was busy. 2. i think they did great."

 

This nonchalance seemed like complete disregard for a project we worked on for two solid months. I decided to speak privately to discuss this with the student. As it turns out, the student and his mother had to take an emergency trip to the hospital for his grandmother and he didn't feel comfortable sharing this in a blog. To me this showed foresight and an understanding of public versus private thoughts.