[stickybuns]

First day of class, one of my college composition students asked if the tests would be multiple choice. There are times when the part of my brain that controls diplomacy will short circuit and this was one of those times: "Multiple choice? What? Only a teacher who is lazy and incompetent would have a multiple choice test in a WRITING class! Oh, but, uh, hmm, uh. I'm sure your high school English teacher was a lovely person. Ahem. So! Moving on!"

My 3 1/2 year old came home from preschool yesterday with homework worksheets. Homework for a 3 1/2 year old when evidence-based research has failed to show a correlative (let alone a causative) relationship between homework and improved cognitive abilities in children under the age of 10. Worksheets went in the garbage, and we spent the evening feeding peanuts to the kiddo's invisible pet elephant instead.