The teacher received a note from fifth grader Jill’s parents:
We understand that you and other school personnel as well as pupils refer to Jill using “she, her, hers.” This is contrary to our family values. Please, in the future, use “they, them, their” and ask all school personnel and pupils to do so as well. We understand that Jill may resist this and ask you to use “she, her, her.” We expect her to grow out of this with time and discipline.
Suppose Trump were right that Congress should have made him president because it was actually he who was Constitutionally elected in 2020.
Some people, of course, are afraid of going to sleep, and for good reason: sufferers from sleep terrors, nightmares, sleep walking, apnea, and other maladies of sleep. Then there is the aversion to bedtime of small and not so small children. Maybe some of this is fear of sleep; more is probably because being awake is more fun. Eventually, it is outgrown. In any event, I am not addressing these groups. I also exclude from the “We” people who never remember their dreams.
My question is why those of us who are beyond childhood, not subject to sleep maladies, and remember some of our dreams are so blasé about going to sleep, indeed often positively relishing the prospect.
