Um. No.

Yesterday during 6th period, the yearbook class was in my room (because it was feeling particularly arctic in the computer lab) brainstorming class questions. These class questions are basically supposed to spark humorous answers from the students, especially in the elementary grades, that can be included on their yearbook class photos page. We give the questions to the teachers for each class, they have the students write out their answers, then they turn them all in to the yearbook staff.

So yesterday, the staff was able to come up with suitable questions for each of the secondary classes - those classes usually tend to have more serious questions that the whole class writes a 2-3 paragraph answer to together. But they still had no questions for the little kids. They wanted to steer clear of the typical, "What do you think your teacher does after school?" and "If you could be any animal, what animal would you be and why?"

One especially sarcastic 11th grader whom I love dearly partly because he lets me play with his ipod touch a lot was incredibly unhelpful in this process. His suggested questions for K - 2 included:

1. Is homosexuality a sin and why?
2. What is your ideal man/woman?
3. How do you feel about ethnic minorities? Are you racist?

Always good for a laugh, that kid...


*edit* - During lunch today, we decided to test out these questions by asking them to a first grader.

Q: Are you racist?
A: Uhhhh.... I'll race you!

Q: What is your ideal woman?
A: I don't know, but there's two girls who hug me in PE a lot! *big smile*

We skipped the question about homosexuality. I just really liked the answer to the racist question.