Quote of the Day (excuse)

"I didn't know we could do that." - Excuse from a high school student who complained about the difficulty of a test where I allowed students to confer with each other for the last fifteen minutes before turning it in. According to my recollection that student DID know about the ability to work together and instead chose to sit around wasting close to 40 minutes thinking he could just get the answers from his classmates who were doing their best. His peers were on to his plot, and ALL of them turned in their tests before the last fifteen minutes so he couldn't freeload. (5/10/16)