Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

This morning my daughter's school was hosting a science fair. Rachel and her friend Claude-Hélène where hosting an exibit on fossils, along with maybe 20 other groups. Some were so so, some were good (including my daughter's) and some were truly amazing! The amount of work and dedication these pre-teens put into their displays is quite impressive, and they sometimes were obviously helped by their parents (some had powerpoint presentations on laptop at their booth!!!), but still. Some of the fair booths well well researched, well illustrated, and the 10 years old actually maning (or preteening?) the displays KNEW their stuff!

Seriously, I've learned that you can use Botox to relieve cerebral palsy symptoms, that in some parts of Canada it's 90% of the population of polar bears went down the drain, and was granted the horrible pleasure to see gruesome pictures on the effects of head trauma, polio and anorexia.

Some of these kids will go far, given the chance. They also have means and tools that were only a distant dream when I was their age...