> still won't turn in homework and regularly get Bs and Cs and their parents just shrug > feel guilty that we don't push him harder to do advanced work. Can y

> still won't turn in homework and regularly get Bs and Cs and their parents just shrug > feel guilty that we don't push him harder to do advanced work. Can you take an A or “advanced work” to the deli and exchange it for a sandwich? The people you are criticizing realised the pointlessness of it all and that extra work (or knowledge) beyond a baseline doesn’t make a measurable difference worth the extra effort.