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"This, my lovelies, is a spelling test.  More importantly, it is a spelling test brought home by my darling David yesterday, and as you can plainly see, that&amp;#039;s an &amp;quot;A&amp;quot;. It&amp;#039;s an &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; written in red pen and most likely written with great glee by his teacher, who was probably as thrilled to give it as I was to see it. That &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is for a little boy who drilled and drilled and drilled those words even though reading is one of his least favorite activities. That &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is for every minute spent painstakingly copying those words into sort groups by vowel and consonant combinations, even though if you asked him, he&amp;#039;d never be able to actually tell you what a consonant was. He knew it though. And he got it right, even though it took him three quarters of an hour to write those words down. That &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is for the sister who sat next to him at the table one night when he put his head down, reassuring him that he wasn&amp;#039;t a failure. The sister that praises him just as often as she sits on him or steals the last piece of his brownie.  That &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is for the mothers everywhere who sit at the kitchen table nightly rubbing backs, giving drinks of water, wiping tears and smiling big when they&amp;#039;d like to call it quits. The mothers who are ready to give up and write that teacher a note and are totally humbled when their kid picks that pencil back up, and tries again. And again. That &amp;quot;A&amp;quot; is for Autism, but today, it&amp;#039;s also for &amp;quot;Accomplishment&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Awesome&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Amazing&amp;quot;.  [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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