students in the room. The students who always had As from the beginning, are now finding out they need vast improvement, and it is quite an eye opener. What I can gather from my youngest, the class has change to one where every students enjoys going to English class, and their focus is to improve their own writing. My youngest is beginning to like English, because she is learning new skills that can be transferred to other subjects. I am pretty sure, I no longer have to worry about her sending me her essay, on some topic I do not understand, nor do the kind of editing that I might expect to find from a grade 10 student. As for the English teacher, former student of a private school and a teacher of a private school. I don't know why she is down here in my outport, but my rural community does get quality teachers, who have strong knowledge in their subjects. Perhaps, because education was taken seriously here and has been provided since 1800, and very few of the well-to-do sent their kids to boarding schools. Pretty brave to go against the ones' that lies above them, but I am pretty sure they have the evidence and stats to go to war with them, if they object. After all the current grade 11 class, only 40 % at the beginning of grade 8, had fair writing skills, and 60 % had low writing skills. Not a one, had excellent