We’ve got trouble my friends, right here in Twitter city.
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself…but there really is a disturbing precedent being set by teachers on Twitter.
A high school art teacher in Texas promised her students they could skip the final exam if they got 15,000 RTs on a tweet by May 23 at noon. Well played.
Clearly your teacher has greatly underestimated the amount of nothing that goes on, online.
Back in my day if we wanted to get out of an exam we had to get a bit more creative—faulty hard drives (really better for final papers), sick relatives (that didn’t exist), dead pets (that may have passed on a few years ago), female problems (I’m not proud, but at an all girls school, it happened)—not that I would have resorted to any such shenanigans. I preferred to have such great mastery of the subject that a final exam was simply a waste of time.
Retweets are a walk in the park. Not to mention the insultingly low goal of 15,000. That bar needs to be set higher to be convincing. Kids, I hate to tell you and taint your victory, but it would appear your teacher doesn’t want to give the exam just as much as you don’t want to take it. Thirteen days to go and they’re less than 3 thousand away from their goal.
Kids these days.
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…bi-daily smile…
