My kiddies all have tests this week, so i have no classes to teach. Which is great cos i get to have a nice easy week of dossing, freezing, and marking homework journals and tests. The homework journals belong to my first years which, since i teach senior high, means that they are all 16 years old. Some of the kids write great stuff (one of them wrote a great piece on saving the environment and preserving the Great Barrier Reef a while back). Some of them write utter crap (quote: 'i rove music, do you liking too?'). And then there are some people who write as if they are 6 years old. I just came across this one today, and it is worrying:
"I want to go to America as I want to meet Elmo, cookiemonster and other Sesame Street characters."
Now, i don't know how quickly any of you matured as you were growing up, but did any of you think that Sesame Street was real and that you could actually go to a real live street in America called Sesame Street and meet Elmo when you were sixteen????? How is this girl unable to separate puppetry from reality? Of course, i should have realised that she had a screw loose when i read the first part of her entry that read: "America is the middle of the world." So she must watch and believe that other institution of the make believe on tv, Fox News (har har har!!!).
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"How is this girl unable to separate puppetry from reality?"
genius.
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