Being a first year bus driver one thing I failed to understand is that low hanging branches of trees on back roads go undisturbed in the summer when school isn't in session. I learned this lesson the hard way, from a petite 2nd grader.
(Crunch-Snap-Crunch)
The children were startled at the noise.
(Me) "Don't worry, that's just a couple branches on the trees, we're safe inside the bus."
That answer was not nearly good enough for one very precocious, future environmentalist.
(2nd Grader yelling) "MR. STUCKEY, YOU'RE HURTING THE TREES!!!"
(Me being me... sarcastic) "That's right... Mr. Stuckey hates the trees!"
(2nd Grader) "MR. STUCKEY, YOU CAN'T HATE THE TREES BECAUSE OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS! PHOTOSYNTHESIS IS THE REASON WE HAVE OXYGEN AND WE NEED OXYGEN TO LIVE!!!"
2nd Grader 1... Mr. Stuckey 0
I later asked this self aware 8 year-old where she learned about photosynthesis and she told me she learned about it from the Disney movie "The Lorax". Hmmmmm... all I learned from Cartoons was that cats don't like mice and rabbits are rascally.
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