#school fails

Each group member would make their own design (with the features that would help your alien survive on your planet's environment being labeled), the group would vote on which design was the best, and then that design would get added to the group's final presentation.

And OH MY GOD did this turn out hilariously.

For reference, this was my alien design (the blocked-out part is where I wrote my name).

I think I did pretty well, even though I'm not sure why I chose to surround the thing with microscopic rock fragments instead of just putting it in a crevice, and that missing close-parenthesis will forever haunt me.

And this was my partner's alien design.

NOTHING WAS LABELED, he clearly watched too many sci-fi flicks, and my dad thinks it looks like He-Man with a praying mantis head, a pharaoh headdress, and a mankini.

How did the other groups fare, you might ask?

Venus: Two different, but nearly identical, alien angels. (The one on the left won the vote.)

Mars: Two boring aliens

AND

The Snurtle (which won, as it deserves)

Jupiter: The Space Bee

And this thing.

This isn't even an alien, it's a pterosaur.

Also, the Jupiter group didn't put either of their aliens in the final presentation. READ THE DIRECTIONS, PEOPLE

Saturn: Was hilarious, because only one student did a drawing, they didn't label it, it didn't get put in the presentation, and it looked like this

Why is it standing on a solid surface? Saturn is a gas giant!

Uranus: Only one sketch, but at least it looks good this time

This one WAS in the final presentation, but the presentation also had a slide with "Voyager 2" as the title and nothing else written on it.

Neptune:

And there's also this, which won:

Nice atmospheric drawing, but YOU DIDN'T LABEL ANYTHING

And finally "Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects"

This one won.

i dunno. for us it’s only day two, but i’ve yet to see my kid do actual work? it’s from 8-2 and so far it’s been a lot of videos and instructions that are more for the caregivers than for the kids.

my kid needs structure and rountine. i was hoping he would still get that. but so far, not so much. which is concerning.

plus it doesn’t help that the teacher will contact the roommate (who is at work on his camus/ he’s IT) and not me - the one who is home with our kids and can be clearly seen on camera. =eyeroll=

Basically this boy would sit in class, all well behaved and lovely and he was great - Until the point someone said something he didn't like, upon which point he would sit in his chair and. Shit. His. Pants.

Just there. On his fucking school chair. He'd sit and crap. All in his underwear, all down his trousers.

And of course, is in high school, people said things every day. So, every day, he would shit. And the teachers would always know immediately because the people around him would stand the fuck up and leave.

So the teacher would go "Did you poo your pants again?" And he'd just nod and smile.

And the thing is, he wasn't like four. It's happened between the ages of 13 and 16. Presumably he stopped when he went to college, but you never know.

There was no medical reason for this. He would just sit, in his high school class, and CRAP HIS FUCKING UNDERWEAR.