Force Feeding Feedback

          I printed messages to my students on their answers to questions on the first two chapters of Chew On This, and I told them they could have five minutes to look at my comments and could ask me if they had any questions about what I had written.  Some students let their eyes fall down on the paper, but even really "nice" students like YKS were finished in a jiffy and staring into space.  I approached YKS and asked him whether he'd read my comments, and he nodded.
          "What did I say?"
          "You said I was wrong."
          "I said you were wrong?  I don't think so.  Let me see your paper."
          It was already put away, but he searched for it and got it out.
          "Can you read what I printed?" I asked, really wondering because of my poor fine motor skills.
          "Yes.  'How do fast food restaurants...explode...young people.'  Explode?"
          "That's exploit."
          But he hadn't even seen that I'd asked him a question.  All he saw was the there was something in red, so it must be a message that he was wrong, and that meant it was time for him to stare into space.