frustrated because she was assigned homework like the home work she had in elementary school, cutting peasing and posters, and, obviously, some classes this was not the case, but she was struck by the fact she didn't have to think, and you hear this from exchange students to the u.s. from high performing country, not all countries, that they are just on, like, automatic doing -- i mean, our kids do a lot of home work actually, you know, compared to kids around the world, but it's not particularly demanding on average. she did have one teacher who was a journalist teacher who she loved and all kids respected her, felt they were learning from her, and she asked at the end of term project to write ten articles, and that was required for the class, and so the girl did this, and she was the only one who did it. the teacher was frustrated, but, you know, nothing happened. again, she was struck by this, that there seems to be -- and, obviously, there's variations from school to school, state to state, classroom to classroom, but this was something that i heard a lot as well, that there didn't seem t