Reflections on Middle School Science Fair

DonnaL
Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:27:34 +0000

I would have been equally suspicious and concerned about this, zmom. It just seems unfair. I doubt that the judges were deliberately practicing favoritism, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if they were unconsciously affirming their own preferences for appearance and “neatness” over everything else.

On the other subject, I’ve always believed that there are parents who do these things (and school projects in general) for their children anyway. When my son was in second and third grade or so, I saw school projects that no kid in the world that age could possibly have accomplished on their own. And, yet, teachers always seemed oblivious to what appeared to me to be obvious.

I hated school projects in general when I was a kid (I had fine motor issues and never could get anything to look right), and so did my son (who had similar issues, even though he was always 1000 times more artistic and creative than I ever was).