Yup. What MoN said.

DD has been bitten by this again and again and again in grades 7 through 12. Read the rubric, read the assignment, follow the rubric to the letter, clean up obvious spelling, formatting/usage problems, collect your A.

If you do too much thinking for yourself... attempt to be too sophisticated... well, you're just asking for trouble. DD's collected a few of those kinds of grades, too. She knows that if she is going to take a stand like that, she has to turn in something that is pretty much late undergraduate level or better if she is going to earn full credit for it. Eventually, students tire of producing 10 times what is (seemingly) required in order to get full credit while using more advanced rhetorical or analytical skills.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.