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No, literally. This is what happens when you review your son’s homework before he turns it in the next day, and you notice that he’s totally blowing off the essay question, except that he’s not so much avoiding the question or being sarcastic as he’s meticulously answering the question asked. And he’s totally perplexed by your insistence that what the question is really asking is for him to imagine and describe something, despite the fact that it clearly asks only if he can think of the thing, and says nothing whatsoever about describing anything at all. Genuinely perplexed and confused to the point of plaintive cries of disbelief, wild gesticulation, hair-pulling, grunting, moaning, and tears. Literally.

No, literally.

This is what happens when you review your son’s homework before he turns it in the next day, and you notice that he’s totally blowing off the essay question, except that he’s not so much avoiding the question or being sarcastic as he’s meticulously answering the question asked. And he’s totally perplexed by your insistence that what the question is really asking is for him to imagine and describe something, despite the fact that it clearly asks only if he can think of the thing, and says nothing whatsoever about describing anything at all. Genuinely perplexed and confused to the point of plaintive cries of disbelief, wild gesticulation, hair-pulling, grunting, moaning, and tears.

Literally.

  1. shebbierocks reblogged this from texburgher
  2. designgeekery said: You have a smart kid on your hands there.
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  4. anthonycloskey said: This is you at your very best, right here.