Too Polite

Those guys are crazy.

Last night attendance at the Blue Belt class was really good. There were five students present, all technically of the same level.

But none really were.

One has already tested for the next level up, and is waiting for the results. I'm at the opposite end, having only completed a small portion of the curriculum.

In between are the other three. Two fairly close to the top, and one a little ahead of me.

How do you teach to that?

The instructor is attempting to teach the appropriate lower level material with everybody doing it, and then switching to the higher stuff for the top guy and any of the others that had already done the lower techniques. He's trying to squeeze in two nights of instruction into one class and isn't happy with the result.

He also is trying to not bore those that have already learned the lower material by having them just repeat it too much.

Of the four low Blues I'm in the best situation. The rotation is always exactly the class I need in the correct order. One of the other guys expressed his desire to stick to the lower material to help him prepare for his eventual exam, even if he's done some of it before.

The other two are teenagers and either have no opinions, or are unwilling to state them out loud. Maybe they are happy to stick to the low stuff, too. They just won't say. Too polite, I guess.

It isn't always good to be polite.