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Parents Baffled By Science Questions
Pickens writes "The BBC reports that four out of five parents living in the UK have been stumped by a science question posed by their children with the top three most-asked questions: 'Where do babies come from?', 'What makes a rainbow?' and 'Why is the sky blue?'. The survey was carried out to mark the launch of a new website by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills called Science: So what? So everything."
No, I don't care to elaborate. I think its high time you broaden your horizons on your own time.
There are entire cultures where this subject is simply not discussed with children of 5 years.
That you can't see this, and are so mired in your own world view, suggests strongly that attempts at education are pointless. You really should investigate a few other cultures.
Just take it on faith that in some cultures a child of 5 asking where they came from is likely to be told they were found under a cabbage plant.
(Yes, that is a literal example).
The point here is that unwillingness to answer a question to the satisfaction of some self appointed third party does not indicate an inability to do so.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Or, stupid kids come from lying sleezbag parents.
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
the student next to me, who was someone you'd probably refer to as a "typical black teen male"
I don't understand what that means.
I guess it's because I don't see race. Now admittedly, people tell me I'm white, and I believe them, because I own a lot of Jimmy Buffett albums.
But seriously, what does this add to your story? It's a good story without anything racial.
Sorry for the off-topic trolling flamebait, because I know this is the Internet and nothing good will come from me posting this. I'm not a very politically correct guy, but it seems like you're using "black" as a stand-in for "ignorant and doesn't want to learn", and it just seems unnecessarily offensive to me. And it's not fair and it's not correct.