on school

Today's conversation with my favorite 11 year old:

"I hate school."

"Why?"

"It's boring. All they make us do is write pages and pages of words in social studies. My hand wants to fall off and it's boring and I hate it."

We proceeded to make up a story about a chocolate donut who ended up in the hospital (hot chocolate doctor and screaming marshmallows for dramatic effect) after being mistaken for part of a circus act (complete with an afro wig,crowd sing-a-longs and flying sprinkles).

"So...maybe words aren't that bad after all?" I asked her.

Eye roll. Laugh. "Yeah, I guess not."

I'm still trying to figure out why it's cool to hate school. We spend hours and hours and hours in a classroom learning about mystical creatures and giant bloody wars and people that changed the world...but for some reason we resent it. 

Let's start a revolution.

School is cool. 

#nerdtime