Book Report

Please pray for my 15-year-old Tommy. He has to write 4 whole sentences with adverbs, adjectives and creative verbs by next Thursday on a “health” topic of his choice.  He has to submit it over the google doc, using his iPad. Oh the absurdity, plus this is for his health class. “I don’t know why we have to write at all – it’s not English class!” Tommy said today. I asked him what his topic is.  “I don’t know, I picked the punemo. Sounds like the fish in the movie, right, but no idea what it is.” It sounded like a rare disorder to me, but on a hunch I asked him to show me the spelling. “That’s pneumonia you dummy!” If there’s a lesson here it’s that iphones are creating a generation of misspellers and schools are probably enabling the youth. “Tom when I was your age we didn’t have computers– we had to write book reports, that’s like 30 sentences, all with a #2 pencil on paper and the only spell checker I had was Webster’s dictionary!”  Wait, Tommy said, “what’s a computer?”