[Publib] re: best ref q ever

[Meghan Miller Brawley]

I had a parent call and ask for information on the 1300 Colony for her
daughter's school report. After quickly checking to make sure she wasn't
referring to some Viking settlement I hadn't heard of, I asked if she meant
the 13 original colonies, and she decided that must be it, although she'd
never heard of them before.
Some kids would be so much better off doing their own homework!

-Meghan Brawley

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Sally Decker Smith <SSmith at itpld.lib.il.us
> wrote:

> This happened to me early in my career.  It sounds apocryphal, but I assure
> you it is not:
>
> A patron approached me to announce that she was doing her daughter's
> report.  I was new enough at this that it startled me, although it no longer
> does. I smiled supportively.
>
> She said it was a history report on Kent State.  This startled me again,
> since to me, Kent State was a current event.  I asked how I could help.
>
> "I have looked in 4 atlases," this clearly locally born woman, of
> approximately my age, grumped.  "There is no state called Kent."
>
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