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Spring Into Sherlock over at sherlockmas is going well! *knock wood* The submissions are rolling in, and I've managed to design things in a way that I don't have to threaten to break any kneecaps if people don't come through with their commitments! (Though I may have threatened the lives of a few anonymous kittens. Hey, whatever works!)

Here's a conversation I had with two students tonight: (Isabelle is 10, Max is 13.)

Max (apropos of nothing): How do you think the world is going to end?
Me (unfazed): I think in a few hundred million years, the sun will expand, and...
Isabelle: You don't think the world will end in 2012?
Me: No...
Max: You don't think the world will end in a zombie apocalypse?
Me: I don't know...what if it did?
Max: I would hide out here! (Meaning the math center.)
Me (scoffing): Are you kidding me? Look at those big glass windows up front! The zombies would get right through that...
Isabelle: I'd hide in the prize case!
Max: I was going to say that!
Me: How would you even fit in there? Besides, it's made of clear glass...you guys really gotta work on your zombie survival plan!
Max: Well, then I'd hide in the trunk of your car!
Me: I don't know...I don't have a very big car.
Max: We'd drive over to Kroger (a grocery store), and eat a bunch of food!
Me: That could be a plan...I could die in a Kroger.

Sometimes, being a good tutor means teaching the kids about life, and not just about math. :P

Comments

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

That conversation is eons better than the one I had at work about 2012. (The only redeeming quality was that one of the conspiracy theorists could actually locate relevant passages in the Bible. Solid book citations always win points over over paranoid email messages and the creepy phantom faxes we seem to receive at our office.) All in all, I'd much rather have it come down to zombies. Zombies I can handle (in theory). Your students also seem better-prepared to deal with end times, once they get over the transparent hiding places. (-;

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

I had totally forgotten about the 2012 conspiracy until Izzy brought it up. Was it the Mayans or the Aztecs who made the original prediction?

Anyway, those sorts of conversations are one of the reasons I'm happy I don't really have any "co-workers". I'd much rather discuss zombie invasions with grade schoolers than listen to some nutjob's theories about the apocalypse. (One of the perks of being an atheist, is I don't have to give a damn about the end of the world, 'cause it'll be, you know: THE END! :P)

Your students also seem better-prepared to deal with end times, once they get over the transparent hiding places. (-;

That just may have been the cutest thing one of them has ever said to me! It's at least tied with: "I accidentally borrowed your highlighter."

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

It's not even that they predicted the end of the world... it's just that their calendar happened to end in 2012. (At least, as far as I know, there's no real Mayan prophecy of end times...) As far as that conversation went, I pretty much gave the same answer you did: Well, then the world ended, didn't it? What am I gonna do about it? Thankfully no one tried to convince me otherwise (I am probably too lost to be redeemed). I got into a bigger argument over whether the "What if you DIE TOMORROW???" fax was prophetic (it was trying to sell life insurance, but no one else got past the 72-point bold font).

Hehehe. That is why I adore children.