Civics, Friday, September 15, 2017

[heroic_jawline]

Today, the teachers were phoning it in! Well, kind of. They were there, but so was the television and a DVD player. "Today, in an effort to make government systems more fun," Steve began, "we're going to watch it in singing cartoon form."

As you do!

"Edutainment," Tony said, raising his eyebrows like clearly everyone was into it. "Its a Friday. Just enjoy the break."

And maybe hope whatever weirdness happening would skip over the room.

...or not, as the less technically adept of the pair of them went to press play on the DVD and hit the "fire" button lying in wait for him on top of the machine. Glitter, everyone?

Tony sneezed, sending out a little puff of glitter. "What. The hell."

"Language," he corrected immediately before adding an, "I'm sorry. I have no idea what happened." His hair was entirely coated in glitter, as was his shirt. It was a Look.

"A glitter bomb," Tony suggested. "Maybe we should all avoid pushing buttons in the class?"

"Good idea," Steve said with a sour look at the DVD player. "Write notes as you watch the videos and we'll have a discussion if there was anything unclear about the presentations after, okay?"

Tony hesitantly pressed play , breathing a sigh of relief when it played as expected. This time.

Comments

Watch the movies!

[heroic_jawline]

Because these are the best ways to learn about the US government.

Everyone together now, "I'm just a bill, yeah, I'm only a bill--"

Or ignore the movies sand ogle your copiously beglittered teachers. Or do both!

Re: Watch the movies!

[revengenotebook]

Paris was taking notes, all right. She'd watched these when she was a kid and there was a lot of the process they weren't covering.

Where were the lobbyists in how a bill becomes a law, for instance? Or the Supreme Court?

Re: Watch the movies!

[era_two_triangle]

Peridot was kind of in awe of the thing playing on the screen. Television was one of the greatest inventions of humanity, if you asked her.

Nobody was probably asking her.

Re: Watch the movies!

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer spent half of her time watching the cartoons, half of her time shaking her head to see just how much glitter actually got stuck in her ponytail and watching it fly out around her, and absolutely none of her time taking notes. What was she, some kind of nerd? Like, whatever.