While cleaning the boys' room, I found on their bookshelf this
teacher's manual for a science text, circa 1968, with my aunt's maiden
name neatly printed inside the front cover. (She recently retired from a
successful decades-long career.)
The red text at the top of the
page for the teacher reads, "Discuss various ways that people in this
picture are aware that they are moving -- bumps, stops, and starts,
sudden throws forward when car stops, etc. How does this compare to the
movement of the earth?"
Where to begin? Nobody's wearing
seatbelts and when Dad stops the station wagon, what fun Junior and Fido
have rolling around unrestrained in the trunk! Then we have Dick and
Jane laughing whilst being thrown forward against the seats, and the
only no-funnick in the crowd appears to be Mother, who seems to have a
problem being hurled toward that metal dashboard. Yikes.
This is in no small way why cleaning takes ages around here.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
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