Walnut Grove, Minn.-Sources indicate that Alice Garvey, former Walnut Grove schoolteacher and mother to Andrew Garvey, has yet again broadcast information pertaining to academic performance without regard to preserving the integrity of individual privacy when she shared her son’s grades with her mother while 
others sat in the room listening.
“Andrew has three A’s, two B’s, and a C,” Caroline Ingalls shares with The Prairie Review. “The C is in history. Why do I even know this information?”
Charles, Caroline’s husband, agrees with his wife but appreciates having the information regardless.
“I’m not sure why Alice shared that while we were standing there,” Charles asserts. “It was strange, but I do find the information useful. You never know when I’ll have to step in and be a father figure–you can never know too many little things like this for those situations.”
Previously, Charles took on a parental role with Andy when he learned via daughter Laura that Andy cheated under the tutelage of Nellie Oleson. This incident also marks the previous time that Alice Garvey publicly shared grades as she wrote the names of all students and the scores they earned on quizzes on the blackboard for all to see.
“There is no better way to learn than to let everyone see what grades students are getting,” Alice states. “Plus, it’s a lot easier than writing them in a book that I have to lug back and forth. The town, as desperate for a teacher as they were, won’t say anything I’m sure.”
Even though the current violation is only of her son’s grades and stated in their own home, Andrew stated that he is uncomfortable with the information being so readily shared.
“I’m just a grade to them, aren’t I?” Andy whines. “This is how I got into cheating in the first place–Ma was always harping on me about my grades and how they weren’t good enough. And now she talks to grandma for the first time in months and the only thing she can think of to share about me is my grades? Thanks, ma.”
At press time, Andy applauded as his father knocked the telephone pole over, noting that it was “nothing but trouble.”
