well, isn't that nice?

This period the task I've been asked to give my children (approximately juniors and seniors) an assignment: a two-page paper on the sexually transmitted disease (more commonly referred to as a sexually transmitted infection these days, but I digress) of their choice.

How delightful. All around me are giggling adolescents ogling over the most disgusting pictures you can find on the worldwide web. I have remind them periodically that this assignment does not require visual aids-- no pun intended-- but the 'Images' option on Google is a temptation they cannot resist.

Meanwhile, I've just watched a classroom of 20 cut-and-paste Wikipedia articles, dive head first into the wonderful world of plagiarism, their assignments.

Soon we'll be talking about who has what and from where it came. Won't that be nice?