And they're, what, 9 years old...?

Todays post is to highlight the terrifying levels of stupidity in the university students that we work with. The answers below were lines taken from selected 3rd grade student's projects on 'Space'. As you read them, compare these to the quality of answers that riddle the rest of this blog. Thanks to Sarah for the brilliant answers!

When asked to do a project on the planets in our solar system I got the following responses from grade three learners:

• Mercury: a heauy silvery white liguid metalic element used in some thermometers and barometers.
  
• Jupiter is the biggest planet and people can't go to Jupiter because it has a sercurity system.
  
• Pluto is close to the sun.
  
• Mercury have many stars.
  
• Pluto was once a planet people ust to come and visit pluto but now they don't becouse it is now a dwarf planet in the whole solar system but now people only visit Neptune, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Uranus, Earth, Saturn only becase they are not even dwarf planets ever and ever again.
  
• Mars is a red planet the one that has pancakes in side . . . and when some people go to space they go down and down and down untill they stoped at the grownd . . . and when they go up the see holes in mars and some more pancakes.
  
• Venus is a planet that have aliens.
  
• Earth direct and unembarrassed abour sexual subjects or bodilx functions.
  
• One little boy added photographs of his family and friends after his 3/4 page project on the solar system.