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missroseroseI officially do NOT understand these kids.
See, the library has this policy where any kids who want to use the computers have to answer a couple of questions about something (today's questions were about the Declaration of Independence). Each piece of paper with the questions gives you a series of links to click on in order to find the page with the information. The idea here is to show kids that you can use the computer for more than having incredibly OTD'd conversations on MSN. (I personally think the library people are going a bit far with that second part - if a kid can't figure out how to look up information on Yahoo! or Google, they shouldn't be allowed near the computer. Sheesh.)
Okay...so they have these incredibly easy questions they have to answer which have all the steps to finding the answers lined up. And yet, I will still get kids who come up to the counter and say, "I need help with this question...", who HAVE THE FREAKING PAGE ALREADY LOADED. The answer is right there in the THIRD BLOODY SENTENCE OF THE PAGE, but apparently it's too haaaaaard for them to read that far.
And of course, when I refuse to tell them the answers, they give me the question back five minutes later, correctly filled out.
Good GOD, that bugs the crap out of me.
See, the library has this policy where any kids who want to use the computers have to answer a couple of questions about something (today's questions were about the Declaration of Independence). Each piece of paper with the questions gives you a series of links to click on in order to find the page with the information. The idea here is to show kids that you can use the computer for more than having incredibly OTD'd conversations on MSN. (I personally think the library people are going a bit far with that second part - if a kid can't figure out how to look up information on Yahoo! or Google, they shouldn't be allowed near the computer. Sheesh.)
Okay...so they have these incredibly easy questions they have to answer which have all the steps to finding the answers lined up. And yet, I will still get kids who come up to the counter and say, "I need help with this question...", who HAVE THE FREAKING PAGE ALREADY LOADED. The answer is right there in the THIRD BLOODY SENTENCE OF THE PAGE, but apparently it's too haaaaaard for them to read that far.
And of course, when I refuse to tell them the answers, they give me the question back five minutes later, correctly filled out.
Good GOD, that bugs the crap out of me.
