Merriam Webster’s Third Unabridged Dictionary de-fines “fall short” as being deficient, or failing to attain, reach, arrive at or perform something. After hundreds of hours of study of the 472,000-plus words in this very same dictionary, I find the headline in Monday’s Iola Register discouraging and feel a need to request that more thought goes into selecting the headlines when a child, such as my daughter, Clara, has given his or her all and doesn’t meet the expectations of the local newspaper. Deficient? Failing?
Last year a similar headline was…
