Some kids actually rebuild your faith

[Peregrine]

I'm an 8th grade science teacher. To finish the year and instead of having them do a research paper, I am having them write a science fiction story. Almost every one of them is doing aliens, alien attacks ... One of the students, my best one, came to me saying she is having a tough time deciding on the story line. It is either about a secret government space-based laser that is used to assassinate anybody on Earth or a secret government computer that can track and even control the US population.

Her science fair project (which won state) was about middle school student conformity.

See there are one or two of our youngins that understand the bottom line of what is going on.