Today the BrainyQuote widget to the right says "If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." ~ Thomas Fuller.

Don't the same hopes cause our hearts to break?

My students were to take a test designed by the administration to measure how much they've learned since we started their remedial course. Some of them never bothered to open the packets and filled out their scantrons completely guessing. I thought I would cry. OK, I did.