Ironic

This has nothing to do with designing, but found it ironic. This morning I had a conference with a parent over the likely retention of his son. Although I think his parenting skills are a contributing factor to his son's lack of academic success, he blamed his child's decreasing grades on his excess time spent playing video games and watching tv. Hearing this made me chuckle, but also begs me to ask him why he allows his student to involve himself in these activities if he feels they are detrimental to his son's education. I told him that games can be valuable to his education if played for the right reasons and if monitored by adults. We went into a big discussion about problem solving, sharp critical thinking, personal involvement and communication with the game and its charcters........ Anyway I think by the end of the conference the father began to realize that his son's classroom efforts and his own reluctance to keep up with his child's education daily were two main factors in his child's failing marks. Before taking this cohort, I honestly do not know how I would have responded to that fathers statements about videogames and his son's failing grades. I am sure I would have agreed to much of what he said.

Just thought it was kind of appropriate to bring this up.