Just finished grading 37 essays on the French Revolution

I spent two hours reading about Robespierre like he was a teenager with trust issues. One kid wrote that 'the guillotine was just a really efficient way to end a bad day.' I almost cried. Then I remembered I still have 12 more to go. The third sentence of every essay is always the one that matters — the one where they finally stop parroting the textbook and say something real. That’s what I’m here for.