When Homework Gets too Much

[Trainer Monkey]

I don't see how the food they eat in Kenya is more difficult than materials used in the shuttle. I'm not trying to say that I had it bad, but I think looking up the food that is eaten in Kenya on google and then telling the class what was read is pretty easy even by 2nd grade standards.

FOODS OF THE KENYANS
Staple foods consist mainly of corn, maize, potatoes, and beans. Ugali (a porridge made of maize) and meat are typically eaten inland, while the coastal peoples eat a more varied diet.
The Maasai, cattle-herding peoples who live in Kenya and Tanzania, eat simple foods, relying on cow and goat by-products (such as the animal's meat and milk). The Maasai do not eat any wild game or fish, depending only on the livestock they raise for food.
The Kikuyu and Gikuyu grow corn, beans, potatoes, and greens. They mash all of these vegetables together to make irio. They roll irio into balls and dip them into meat or vegetable stews.
In western Kenya, the people living near Lake Victoria (the second-largest freshwater lake in the world) mainly prepare fish stews, vegetable dishes, and rice.

found at..... Food in Kenya

Different site then I found
But i worry about pushing the kids too hard,and not getting legitimate understanding.
Yeah,I can have him google something,or do it for him,but does he actually UNDERSTAND the information.
We're talking a difference between rote repetition,which even a parrot can do,and cognetive understanding of the information at hand

Surely he can understand corn, potatoes and beans. I think you are making this much more complicated than it is. Surely, this assignment is to teach him communication and research skills as opposed to the subject matter.

Theres more to it then just recipes,apparently theres traditional presentation
Now I have an attitude,if he's going to do something,do it right,there's no point in being adequate.Adequate people exist to fill factories,or ask if you want fries with that.
To do such a report correctly,and ask any of my fighters Im a facist for doing things correctly,he should be at least in the 4th grade.
I was like that as a printer,which was why Im the best ink mixer youve ever seen,Im like that as a trainer,I firmly believe that doing anything good enough is doing it half assed,and that means your down half an ass.