On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:35:06 -0400, Larry wrote:

JohnH wrote in
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Now that I'm a sub, and can have an opinion, I always tell students to
sit next to a Korean if they're worried about grades!


Just do exactly what HE does and you can be salutatorian, standing right
behind him. LUCKILY for us, most of them working in menial tasks here,
like in a Chinese restaurant, don't speak English, giving natives some
chance at better jobs. They simply don't realize their full potential in
time.

Eastern Buffet is a wonderful Chinese restaurant, here. A black lady was
standing at the cashier's counter waiting to pay her bill. The 7-8 year
old son of one of the family members who owns the place walked around
behind the counter and she was reluctant to hand him her credit card. I
told her he was probably a Junior at university waiting for his opening
at MIT to further his career and he'd do it right. She looked so
astonished watching him use the credit card machine and the cash
register, handing her both receipts nicely stapled together in rapid
succession. I said to her, "Watch this." I handed him my bill and a
Twenty which he rung up and didn't bother to put the twenty into the
computer, counting up the change, twice, to make sure it was correct,
something most McDonald's MANAGERS are incapable of accomplishing if
their computer goes down.....(c;

I chalk it up to genetics....which, I'm told, isn't politically
correct....

He'll have his MBA by 2007....when he's 9. What them put a box in front
of the microphone so he can reach it at commencement....(c;

I chalk it up to parenting and a high respect for education.