My 15-year-old (California public school): "It's the Republicans who freed the slaves and passed the civil rights legislation."
My 12-year-old (public school) (when asked, "What is a social justice warrior?"): "A nut!" "A lunatic!"
My 12-year-old (public school) (when asked if it's cool to be a social justice warrior): "Actually it's kinda cool to trash on those kinds of people."
My other 12-year-old (when asked, "What is a social justice warrior?"): (in a shrill, high pitched voice) It's someone who's like 'I'm going to give my children aromatherapy instead of vaccines."
My 12-year-old: "Do you know what they're teaching us? That humans are killing the oceans and destroying the planet and we're all going to die from global warming!"
My other 12-year-old: "That health teacher is crazy! Do you know what she did? All of us--boys and girls together--she told us how girls masturbate! She's crazy! We were all embarrassed!"
My son’s hs bio teacher asked what was the most effective form of birth control. He was the one who said “abstinence “.
My daughter got a writing prompt after reading a paragraph about borders. She felt it was biased toward open borders. She responded to the prompt with an essay about how “good fences make good neighbors”.