The Royals just came back from their traditional midterm break. Only Whit Merrifield met the criteria necessary to stick around and help out during the break. For a while it looked like Hunter Dozier might join him but it didn’t end up working out. But now that everyone has returned to class it’s time to hand out those midterm grades. When you’re dealing with students in a performance course rather than pure knowledge you have to grade based on the talent they came to the class with so these grades reflect what was expected of them as well as how they’ve performed.