My son was given as homework to listen to the SOTU

[Mass]

(8th grader). Poor kid.

[MercutioATC]

1. Does his school have corporal punishment?

It might be easier to ditch the assignment and take the beating...

[Kolesar]

2. That's abuse

Home school him!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Like watching the Three Stooges, with two of them missing

[BurtWorm]

9. No where near as funny and three times more idiotic.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. I thought torture was illegal.

I'd sue.

[louis-t]

5. Give him a shovel and a

puke bag. Was his assignment to learn to identify a lying, weasely, criminal, sociopathic douchebag when he sees one?

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. I'd rather stare into an unflushed toilet for 1 1/2 hours.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. Is his school willing to pay for an interpreter?

This is a foreign language he'll be listening to. :)

Have comfort food standing by, the poor lad might be overwhelmed by the sheer stupidity of it all.

Seriously. :hug:

[Hissyspit]

8. Tell him to print this out and take it to class and read it outloud:

Point-By-Point counter to Bush's lies and propaganda -

http://thinkprogress.org

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2782676&mesg_id=2782676

[Maddy McCall]

10. Mine is in 8th grade, too. What's your kid's opinion?

My kid said it sounded just like the speech from last year.

[Shine]

11. LOL, so was my eighth grader! Poor kid. Poor me, I watched it with him.

:eyes: