u/AstroNerd92

I teach HS astronomy and for the end of the year, we do an egg drop project. For the project, students have to come up with their own design using materials they get themselves from home or the store if necessary. They get to design it as a group, build it as a group, and drop it on the last week of school. Last year, my students were super into it. Most groups succeeded and had some pretty interesting designs. One group was so proud of their’s that they gave it to me to put on display in my classroom. It currently sits on my filing cabinet.

It’s a very different story this year. Out of the 6 classes I teach, there are 19 total groups and only 3 of them have even started building anything. Those 3 are into it and having fun, but the other groups could not care less even though this is going in as a test grade. They only have 3 more school days to build it before the drop day. I’ve had so many students ask “what if I’m not going to be here the last week of school?” Which is insane to me. This is a test grade and parents are still going to let their kids skip…

I don’t understand how the project was such a success last year and such a bust this year.

I’m rewatching the show and while some people hate the documentary episodes, I think the episode where they made fun of QAnon is so funny. The fact that Smitty is Q and it was from him accidentally getting high is so funny to me. “You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.”

Not sure whether to call this humor or a rant because this is hilarious but also absolutely stupid. So in our county, seniors are done 2 weeks before everyone else (graduation and stuff). We also have testing we need to do called EOCs. Now that testing is done the last week seniors are here. However, for some odd reason, our last period tests the day after seniors are supposed to leave. So teachers of seniors, like me, are very confused on when our students are supposed to take their EOC.