Something you often say as an educator: “Surely my students can’t possibly get any stupider.”
To which your students reply: “Oh yes, we can!”

Case in point: I’ve never seen a student fail to understand how to do multiple-choice questions. The student in question wrote something under each option but did not indicate in any way which answer they thought was correct. Until the last three, where the student showed they did know what multiple-choice was.

I have no words.

Also my students can’t even add fractions with a calculator. I know they can’t add without a calculator, but until now they at least knew how to use a calculator — especially when we spend class time on how to use it. In high school, are they just taking pictures of problems with their phones and solving the questions that way?

Answer: Probably.

Sigh.

Book 5 of A More Efficient Fantasy, Optimizing Family, has been republished.

Traditional fantasy worlds are shit. The technology is pathetic, the magic is too showy, the beer tastes like piss, and nice humans don’t usually move to live in evil countries.

Yadis has a new family. It’s a messed up, non-traditional family, but she’s going to fight to keep it. Even if she has to travel to Demonia. Mika promised her that she’d be safe in Demonia, and she wants to believe him, but she doesn’t know how that can work.

Paperback at Amazon $9.99
Ebook: Buy Direct $2.99
Amazon | B&N | Kobo | Apple | Other Links