This morning when my Communications class was getting started, the teacher suggested we review what we talked about on Friday since weekends tend to have a tendency to help people forget things.

So she proceeded to say that she wanted "someone brave -- or not someone brave, just someone knowledgable" to review Friday's discussion for the class.

In this class, the teacher assigns sections from our textbook for students to present in class. Some students end up mostly reading it, while others just bring index cards with them to the podium and end up not realizing when the teacher is reading from the book something she wanted them to hit on that they didn't write on their cards. At any rate, she normally calls on volunteers for any discussion pieces, but this morning she didn't.

I would have thought, had I known she wasn't going to call on a volunteer, that she would have asked the person that presented this section of the chapter to review it. But she didn't.

As I'm sitting there, flipping through my pages to get back to the section from which we're starting the review, I hear the teacher continuing to mention bits of information about the review and about how weekends are prone to forgetfullness, and about how knowledge is power or some such. And then, "Patricia, would you review this section for us?"

Wow. So now I'm singled out as the "brave -- or not really brave, but knowledgable" student of choice in my communications class.