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Apparently "bring my homework to work on" is what the kids are calling it these days.

Posted by: unimaginative | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 7:50 AM

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She's taking an extension course from Northwestern.

Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 7:52 AM

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"The homework is practicing my tuba solo and then doing a chemistry experiment. Do you have a bunsen burner I can borrow?"

Posted by: E. Messily | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 8:41 AM

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I shudder to think of what kids are taught at Unitarian babysitting Education classes.

Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 8:42 AM

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Its all about the inherent worth and dignity of every babysitting gig.

Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 10:28 AM

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Kids still do homework? My reading of the headlines in Slate suggested that they are too busy bullying, sexting, ignoring the Red Chinese menace to their AP Calculus scores and being unaware of their own privilege.

Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 10:42 AM

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It's clearly a ruse. Nannycam the little she-devil. There's no telling what she has planned . . .

Posted by: MAE | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 1:37 PM

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It's clearly a ruse. Nannycam the little she-devil. There's no telling what she has planned . . .
apropos

Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 2:11 PM

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Kids still do homework?

Kids have way more homework now than when I was a kid.

Posted by: lemmy caution | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 4:57 PM

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Doesn't mean they do any of it.

Posted by: OPINIONATED TA | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 5:19 PM

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See, my reaction was that by assuming they would fall asleep she's totally jinxed it.

Posted by: emdash | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 5:43 PM

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I saw two baby horses today. Well, one baby horse and one baby pony. I can confirm that neither was sleeping.

Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 8:44 PM

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If you can confirm that, even without years of study of veterinary medicine, why can't a member of Congress confirm his own penis? We need a central genital registry for all members of Congress.

Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 9:04 PM

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6: Maybe she's unschooling, and sexting is her homework. Who are we to say otherwise?

Posted by: DS | Link to this comment | 06- 4-11 10:28 PM

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Don't go to the trouble of installing nannycams. The kids will just hack them and loop some prerecorded stuff they have whilst they're busy doing something unspeakable on The FaceBook. They may look like nerds these days but they are really really evil.

The time had to come when the saying "the youths of today are..." finally became a solidly established truth.

Luckily there is Fukushima. They didn't contribute -but they sure as hell are not going to profit from it when we're away. Ha-bloody-Ha!

Posted by: Guido Nius | Link to this comment | 06- 5-11 2:36 AM

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The exact phrase "The youths of today are" makes an interesting Google search. One result was "Why are the youths of today are asking stupid questions?"

Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 06- 5-11 5:45 AM

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Youth of Today!

Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 06- 5-11 7:15 AM

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"It's clearly a ruse. Nannycam the little she-devil. There's no telling what she has planned . . ."

Yeah, and end up in jail forever because you recorded some kidaep¹0n

Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 06- 5-11 9:41 AM