Published October 16th, 2008
By Torry Stiles
10. The Driver’s Education class final exam includes a 25-lap figure-8 race.
9. Your fourth-grade couch potato is excited about gym class because in the second semester they get to use live ammo.
8. Chapter one in the text is called,”Don’t let your parents find out.”
7. You catch your high-schooler sacrificing a goat for extra credit and to gain favor with the rain gods.
6. The class candy sales fundraiser is for the teacher’s bail money.
5. Textbooks are being delivered to your home in plain, brown paper wrappers.
4. You discover your car keys have been flushed to “save the poor baby polar bear.”
3. The parent permission slip for the field trip to the state capitol building includes a “tear gas waiver.”
2. Your second grader knows how to make babies and how not to.
1. The Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle poster is in the trash and a picture of Che Guevara is over the bed.