I agree with your assessment that our students current performance bears remarkably well in comparison to past years, particularly pre-pandemic, though I have attributed it differently. And I raise this not because I think I am right, but just to share my similar observation and attribution. So much learning occurs at the end of each semester - those last days before assessment students have always risen above any mid-semester indifference, distraction, or other discernible performance that seemed to be off the mark. My students are all writing papers and they are great. I hope you are right and I am wrong, David, because then our students are showing high levels of resilience and focus through the hardest of semesters, rather than doing what some law students have always done.
I agree with your assessment that our students current performance bears remarkably well in comparison to past years, particularly pre-pandemic, though I have attributed it differently. And I raise this not because I think I am right, but just to share my similar observation and attribution. So much learning occurs at the end of each semester - those last days before assessment students have always risen above any mid-semester indifference, distraction, or other discernible performance that seemed to be off the mark. My students are all writing papers and they are great. I hope you are right and I am wrong, David, because then our students are showing high levels of resilience and focus through the hardest of semesters, rather than doing what some law students have always done.