Students' Expression of Interest--or Lack Of

This is a typical case:

Dear Tina:
 
      I have chose the interview a native speaker of English. She is my ESL  140's classmater, but I forget her name and I don't know what is her E-mail.  Can I  tell you about her information for Wednesday? I will E-mail you.
 
 
  Your student:XXYYYYYY
 Esl  142  sec 002

Students often down know their teachers' names, which shows a lack of interest on the part of the student who has probably been told and on the part of the teacher, who hasn't asked them to follow manuscript rules, which include their writing the teacher's name after their class and section.

But I'm really sharing this because I like the word classmater.  There's a teacher, and then there are classmaters.
-er is a common ending for people-nouns.

On the subject of students' interests, one of my students said she wanted to go into the StoryCorps booth to see what it is like, and another said he'd like to go there to interview his wife.

And now back to my e-messages.