[Magdalen] Back to school today (+).

[M J [Mike] Logsdon]

Indeed, Jay.  In fact, if he gets in the car with anything akin to a cheerful countenance, I'll know his teacher got through to him (about the unacceptability of the behavior), and that my prediction that 5th period French would perk him up was solid.

If he gets in the car with a "perplexed discomposition" and "riddling distemper", I'll know a wee talking to is in order.

The difficulty, for me anyway, is the blend between special needs and mere teenageness.  The former needs special treatment, and the latter just needs to be chewed up and spat out by the system like it did all of us at that age on the path to teenage enlightenment.
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"O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
- The Rev Mr John Donne
(in a not-so-chipper moment)