Perplexing is almost it - sad is probably closest. However, she DOES make quite an effort to become less ignorant, and for that I give her an immense amount of credit.
Thanks, Steve.
An example is why I've stayed away from the writing/math thread in here. I excelled at writing but I had to really work at it, having not been taught grammar properly in High School.
However, no matter how hard I worked at math, I failed. I failed Algebra three times in High School and College combined. I struggled with math, I couldn't even handle basic math, no matter how hard I tried. But I persevered, and I went back to college a couple years after I met John, and I passed basic algebra, barely, with a lot of help from him, and by the skin of my teeth. But I had to have what you would probably call a handicap. I had to have more time for tests, and more time to get things solved. I had to work every problem 7 times and take the answer I got most often. And I got a B in the class, amazingly enough.
I'll never be good at math, but I'll never stop trying to be better. And that goes for everything else in my life. :)
Brenda