I don't know why I'm even bothering to write this, because this new message is almost not worth responding to. But whatever. The conversation was not "getting to be too much" for me, I already said that I don't feel like arguing about something that I don't have that much interest in. And I'm not going to argue with someone who has so much less education than I do. And my eighth graders are doing fine, thank you. And, uh, I don't need to teach them the alphabet. Maybe it took you until 8th grade to learn it, but most of us passed that in kindergarten. I'm glad I don't have any kids that are as big of smart-asses as you are. You're what, in 10th? And more immature than 13-year-olds. Pathetic. And yes, I do lead a busy life. You will too, when you GROW UP.