Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt

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60. I have to watch Does not and Trail/Trial

I often out the space in the wrong spot when typing "Does NOT", and "Doe Snot" are two correctly spelled words. I also have to watch that to make sure I am taking a Trail to get to court for a Trial, NOT a trial to a trail.

As to Spelling, I am still proud of my Grade School Spelling grades, Extremely precise. I was in Grade School in the late 1960s.

One meaning of precision means consistent results, if you do an experiment over and over again, and get the same results, it is considered a very accurate and precise test.

Thus my Grade School Spelling test were PRECISE AND ACCURATE for the results were ALWAYS THE SAME. NEVER VARIED, always the same. When my niece was in Grade School I brought this up to show I could help her with her spelling, My Mother turned to me and said, "An E is still an E!!!"

Great thing about Spelling tests, how few words you can spell correctly if the first time you look at them is when you have to write all the words correctly that you missed on the test (i.e. I never looked at them till AFTER the test).

Now, in Second Grade the teacher said that for Spelling tests the School was no longer going by percentages, but one wrong a B, two wrong a C, three wrong a D, four wrong an E. I hated it when I heard of that change and refused to even look at the Spelling book from that date forward. I already has an understanding of percentages, and thus like percentages not some arbitrary number system.

I always took the test, and ever so often get one or two words correct, but never studied for the test. I continued my protests till the school stopped giving spelling test after sixth grade.

That protest did teach me one thing, you have to SPEAK UP and make it clear that you are protesting, in all my years of taking Spelling tests not one of my teachers ever asked my why I did so poorly on them. They all required me to write down the words I misspelled 10 times afterward, but never asked my why I did so poorly. I should have wrote on the test I am protesting against the grading system, or said so in class, but never did. That was my fault, I should have spoke up.

On the other hand, NONE of my teachers ever asked me and I was in Grade School at the time, so the blame can be shared.