I don't even...

[apple_pathways]

This is from a teacher friend's Facebook status:

Overheard in journalism class while students were using newspapers for an assignment: "Whoa, is this how people find out what movies are playing?" and "Oh! They put dead people in here, too!" Blerg.

A journalism class that has never seen a newspaper. *facepalm*

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[irisbleufic.livejournal.com]

Moriarty's facial expressions + LOLspeak = OTP

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Best icon evar! ;)

[voltaires-vice.livejournal.com]

That is bloody depressing. :*(

[ladylovelace.livejournal.com]

...

What I wonder is why they wanted to be journalists in the first place, and indeed where they thought they were going to get their work published/get a job.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they necessarily want to be journalists--they're high school students (probably 15-17), and just taking the class as an elective. But still! How can you even know what journalism is without knowing a damn thing about a newspaper?

[inkdancer.livejournal.com]

;-;

I would be very tempted to fail them all on the spot. If you are in journalism class and have never read a newspaper, you fail instantly. Just like one day, when I am teaching, anyone who enters my creative writing class without ever having read a poem voluntarily will fail. (Had some of those writing poetry in the class when I was a TA.)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

IDEK! It's a different world for kids today...

[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

WHAT.

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

What? I cannot even - do they not PUBLISH A SCHOOL NEWSPAPER?

This makes me feel so old, and I am not much older than those kids, I'll bet.

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I don't think they publish obituaries in the school newspaper. ;)

Never work with children. You'll feel ancient before you hit 30!

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Lol, well, that is a good point. :D

[housemaid79.livejournal.com]

What is this world coming to?!?!?!

[nahara.livejournal.com]

Be right back. Crying. ;_____;

[jesterjoker.livejournal.com]

Whoa! O_O

I have to wonder if they came from some insanely isolated village or something.