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To Be Fair, What Does a Bronx Kid Know About Wheelbarrows?

Young teen: Why are all examples in my physics books about animals?
Teacher: City buses and wheelbarrows are not animals.

–Riverdale, Bronx

Overheard by: Ali P!

  • Posted on January 5, 2010
  • Animals & Nature, Education, Questions, School and studying, Science, Teachers/Professors, Teens, The Bronx
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