I can’t teach these middle schoolers anything! They’re too smart




San Francisco Chronicle Arts & Entertainment - Spoken Edition show

Summary: Wednesday night, Aidan had 95 pages to read of “The Odyssey” before he could play on the iPad. He had had a week to get there. When I picked him up in the Kipcap, he said, “I finished the whole book, Daddy.” And he dove into Minecraft. “Wait. Prove it. Tell me the plot,” I said as I turned the engine on. “This guy goes to Troy and comes back.” While technically correct, this wouldn’t pass Mr. Brettschneider’s quiz.