(But I don’t know, for someone with years of Freshman comp sections on the near horizon, the program’s almost appealing to me… is that bad?  It’s not that I’m not enthusiastic about teaching, but…)

At first I was surprised to read the bit about high schools in Indiana using a similar program to grade their standardized tests—but then thinking back to the rigidly-enforced 5 paragraph essay formula of my Maryland public school days, I realized such programs are really just the next logical step—(as if we didn’t feel like we were just being churned out of a machine there already)

It seems unlikely to me that such a program will be fully institutionalized at the university level—but at the public high school or middle school level, it just very well could be. I’m even tempted to say “probably will be.” A little frightening–