GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, aviculturist, birder and freelance science and nature writer. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she relocated from Seattle to NYC with her parrots after earning a BS in Microbiology (emphasis in Virology) and PhD in Zoology (Ornithology) from the University of Washington. In NYC, she was the Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History for two years, pursuing part of her "dream" research project by reconstructing a molecular phylogeny of the parrots of the South Pacific islands. GrrlScientist and her five parrots are currently relocating to Germany, where she will continue writing her blog while also writing a book and learning German. (Meanwhile, her parrots will continue to nibble on her extensive personal library.) If you appreciate GrrlScientist's writing, you can help pay her living expenses by hiring her to "blog" your conference, speak at your club or write articles for your publication (or by clicking on the Paypal button below). If you read an essay on this blog that you especially enjoyed, please nominate it for inclusion in 
tags: DonorsChoose, science education, teaching, fund-raising, poverty
This is a poll. I will show you two pictures, and ask you to tell me which picture is more symmetric. Your votes are tabulated after you've clicked on that picture:
Now that you've participated in my little poll, I want to share some information about my own fund-raising efforts for DonorsChoose:
Those pictures tell us that collectively, we've:
- provided resources to 550 students
- supported 66 hours of instruction and homework
Oh boy! Sixty-six hours of classroom instruction AND HOMEWORK?? That's almost demonic! (Get it? 66 is almost 666 .. oh, nevermind!) I can almost hear the screams of childhood agony now .. "homework! aaiiieeee!" This is music to my ears! And it should be music to your ears too, because kids LOVE complaining about homework -- complaining is an essential part of the job description of what it is to be a kid. Complaining about homework gives kids special pride because this is how they score those very essential smug points amongst their peers. So let's be sure to help hundreds more kids fulfill their childhood job description by providing them with something really important to complain about! It doesn't cost much for you to help them fulfill their job description!
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Comments
Weirdly, my 6 year old great-nephew actually likes homework. Not that he gets a lot, at his age.
Posted by: SimonG | October 29, 2009 10:39 AM