But why?
Well, my self-interested reason for the rule was that it's really annoying listening to that kind of whining and not taking responsibility. But a better reason is that the rule made the kids think about the reason for the rule, and maybe encouraged them to take responsibility instead of blaming someone/something else.
I never thought of using <span />
! I always used <span></span>
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You can see the code of people's replies?
I've been doing much too much editing HTML by hand in BJC. There are all those <img ... />
and <br />
things to remind me about slashes ending tags.
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