I started going to the middle school PTA meetings to I could check things out, see what we were getting ourselves into....
Last month they gave the tech teacher money to buy a 3D printer. (yes, this is where I live) Well, another teacher wasn't quite sure what a 3D printer was and she asked, "Ok, so if you put in a picture of a hamster, will it make a hamster?" Then a couple people politely started explaining how a 3D printer worked. And no one got the Captain Underpants reference! No One! I was glancing around looking for the smirks, the chuckles but nothing. Come on people, don't you remember....that was how George and Harold ruined the science fair....with a hamster.....and the Patsy 2000.....come on, no one? It was a sea of straight faces. Had everyone forgotten their Captain Underpants?! Had none of these people read Captain Underpants? And the meeting was in the library so I started worrying that I was sitting in a library that didn't have Captain Underpants. The box set is like $30. That's way cheaper than a 3D printer. Now this is what's wrong with the education system in San Ramon; Johnny can read but he's reading all the wrong shit!
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