In chapet 4 candidates welding abilities were sharpened at W-M corporation which makes created Iron articles even as pre-war American ancient Rarity phonies, sold at places like childan’s shop. the biggest interest from the Japanese has made an immense Marketplace for such things and no one addresses them intently.

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Frank’s welding skills were honed at W-M Corporation, which makes wrought-iron objects as well as pre-war American artifact forgeries, sold at places like Childan’s shop. The massive demand from the Japanese has created a huge market for such items, and no one questions them very closely.

What I found particularly amusing was that, as you can see above, one of the main characters is named Frank; the student’s responses repeatedly referred to this character as “Candid” (which, above, was further mutated into “candidate”).  And the plagiarism detection software was indeed fooled!  What the student didn’t realize is that teachers don’t need software to be able to tell the difference between honestly composed sentences and computer-generated gibberish.

Brandy says, ¨​who wants to go out with me?​¨ All the boys yell ¨​ME, ME, ME​¨. Brandy​´​s first date was with Spike at his house. Woody calls Spike and tells him that it​´​s his turn to date Brandy. Woody and Brandy go to Restaurant for a date. Woody ask her if she is feeling right and she says ¨​yes​¨.

I don’t know how this happens⁠—I had to do some poking around on character code tables just to figure out how to replicate the effect.  What’s more interesting to me is the students’ confusion when I point out that, hey, those aren’t quotation marks.  It suggests that they haven’t read enough books with conventional typography to have internalized what quotation marks and apostrophes actually look like in print.

Q:	“Do you know what’s going on in this book?”
A:	“Not really. The one thing I know is that the main character goes by he/him pronouns”

That one is pretty much impossible to beat, but here was an honorable mention from the same conversation:

Q:	“Does the teacher read our annotations?”
A:	“Nah, which is good because I just look for when weird things are happening and then write slang words she won’t get like ‘oh shit’ and ‘what the fuck’”

Ellie was struck by the way this kid seemed concerned not that she would get in trouble for cursing in a school assignment but rather that the teacher would be baffled by such esoteric slang.  Did she really think that the words “shit” and “fuck” were coined by zoomers?

“I didn’t really hear you at first, steeped as I am in a culture of assumed patriarchal white privilege, rank privilege, and inequitable hierarchy.”

Anyway, it turns out that you don’t need to go to Texas for that sort of thing.  With half the term remaining, teachers of seniors received a notification that they would not be allowed to fail students unless they filled out a form right then and there declaring that the student was certain to receive an F.  See how that works?  First you require that teachers accept late work right up to the end of the term; then you load up your “F Confirmation Form” with language indicating that only students “receiving a guaranteed F” (at a point when nothing could possibly be “guaranteed”) and who will “absolutely get an F” and are “definitely not going to pass” (at a point when nothing could possibly be “absolute” or “definite”) can be given failing grades.  Failing grades are thus impossible.  Wow, a 100% pass rate!  What a successful school!