As the parent of a second grader, I now really understand my parents' droopy faces when I announced I had a trifold poster board project.

{looks at requirements and sees “all text must be handwritten” and calls on Thor for vengeance}

Having said that, I always laugh when I hear people complaining about schools, because let me tell you the elementary school I went to... was not as rigorous as this public school.

I must have done 14 minutes of work in any given year.

My friends and I recreated the battle of midway during class by making aircraft carriers and planes out of paper. It literally took months.

Recess was footskitball, which was tackle basketball.

Also hilarious: the scene at the local Michael's the day after the trifold project is announced. It's like the day coronavirus really bit down and toilet paper, except trifolds.