There is a student in my 7th grade class who has four mouths. Each one says different things. Yesterday in a story Daniel was able, against all comprehension and belief, to remember what each mouth said and when and how. How he did that I don’t know, because I was the one directing the story, and while asking him the questions I couldn’t even keep all the information straight in my own mind.
As I stood next to Daniel during the interview process, trying to keep all the information straight while keeping the class from laughing too loudly so that I could ask the questions and milk the moment, I thought to myself, “How strange that this talented kid, an 8th grader in a 7th grade class, had flunked French last year and was held back by his teacher for not knowing grammar! How odd!”