“Mister,” said a disembodied voice from the monitor on the wall.
This rarely happens. So few remote students speak up. Certainly none as loudly.
“It’s Yolanda!” a student in the front row said.
“Go ahead, Yolanda. What’s up?”
“Mister, is that because…”
She proceeded to ask a question related to simplifying square roots. It was a fine question — the best of the day. Perhaps everyone else was wondering the same thing.
“That’s a good question,” I said. “Think of it this way…”
A few minutes later, she asked another good question. And a few minutes after that, yet another.
Oh, I so hope that she keeps this up. Maybe it will be contagious.