I was looking over Scout’s homework to make sure it was done well, written nicely, and was complete. After reading a story at school, one of his assignments was to answer a few comprehension questions. The first question asked, “Describe the Fruitless Mountain”. Apparently this is the poor and desolate location of the story. His answer was “Fruitless Mountainis a “, and the rest was erased. When I looked past his lousy erasing job, I read, “a worthless piece of crap”.

Should I be happy that he erased that? Or should I be worried that he wrote it in the first place?

I went with happy that he corrected his poor choice of description.

And then I had him complete it properly.