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The red and the black: a Monarch Notes summary

BY RON ISAAC
Posted 4/8/22

When I was the GOAT of homework-evaders, test-acing quacks and all-around accountability dodgers back in my high school great pretender days, I had a library of Monarch Notes study guides. It's just as well that they've ceased publication, because today's students would have little or no use for them. They can get by, in fact qualify to be a schools superintendent, except for lacking the age, knowing nothing about literature.

There's no need to fake knowledge, so crib sheets are obsolete. In terms of reward and punishment, whether a student is knowledgeable or ignorant, it's six-of-one or half-a-dozen of the other. Neither here nor there.

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