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Why do you think Cotton involved himself in things in the end, when he already said he wasn’t going to?

He's not going to leave Stephanie out there on her own. Plus, the president threatened to have her reputation destroyed.

It was Cotton doing what he always does - help people. This time it was Stephanie.

Agree with >2 Olivermagnus: and >3 EadieB:

I agree with everyone. I think that his loyalty to Stephanie runs very deeply.

His long-time relationship...almost relationship, whatever you want to call it, with Stephanie. We've seen before the lengths he'll go to for her.

He seemed to be doing this totally to protect Stephanie Nelle.

I concur. He’s acting purely out of loyalty to Stephanie.

Yes, I think Cotton wants to help Stephanie out, given what she's up against (how many more prepositions can I put in one sentence??)

>9 threadnsong: Be careful there. You're dealing with Andrew the teacher. He'll make you write sentences without using one single preposition. Maybe I could organize an English writing class for you????

>10 Carol420: >9 threadnsong: 🤣🤣🤣 Spent enough of my time breaking down the grammar of English, far from my favourite area of teaching.

>10 Carol420: Yes, there is that. My third grade teacher taught prepositions by describing them as "a rabbit goes insert preposition a rock" to help with the visuals.

>11 Andrew-theQM: Did you ever teach your pupils how to diagram a sentence? Is that even a "thing" in Britain?

>12 threadnsong: I used to love diagraming sentences. I guess I'm a bit strange...okay...a lot strange:)

>12 threadnsong: >13 Carol420: I had to check diagramming a sentence on YouTube. Been around education for 39 years, including the four year training degree, and never seen that.

>14 Andrew-theQM: Most of your students will hope that you forget you ever saw it...unless they're like me and really like doing it. But then everyone knows I'm a "bit weird:)

>15 Carol420: Amazed that it hasn’t come up with the big focus on grammar over the past 10 years or more.

When you diagram a sentence it is very easy to determine the part of speech of each word. I loved diagramming sentences too!

I hated when you were called to the blackboard to do it.

I was great in algebra. The teacher would call me to the board to work out the problem in order to show the kids how to figure out the answer. lol I loved it! What a show off I was!

>17 EadieB: Yeah! Nice to have a fellow "weirdee"!! You will have to love any type of math all on your own:) My daughter love math. She was always in the advanced classes. She either got that from her father, or they gave me the wrong kid at the hospital.

>18 JohnDBurke: >19 EadieB: >20 Carol420: I think I’m more like John. Maths has always been one of my core strengths, but would never want to go out front in a classroom.

>21 Andrew-theQM: I bet you have already figured it out that "front of the classroom" was never one of my problems:)

>22 Carol420: Even when it involved maths?

>23 Andrew-theQM: No math. Math is greatly overrated:)

>24 Carol420: 😂😂😂 Thought you might say something like that.

Oh my! I love this discussion going on.

>13 Carol420: I loved diagramming sentences! The more complex, the better. It gave me a head start when I began learning foreign languages in high school.

>14 Andrew-theQM: If you're ever on this side of the pond, Andrew, or vice versa, I could probably remember how to do it.

And I was one of those show-off-y types who loved diagramming sentences on the blackboard. Unlike >19 EadieB:, I didn't do algebra on the blackboard, but when we were learning large number multiplication in 6th grade (with 3 or 4 or 5 digits), I loved doing it on the blackboard. The teacher even had classroom where the other kids would try to beat my time calculating the correct total!