Title: Edutainment
Theme: Frustration
Pairing: None
Rating: K
20. Frustration
"Is everyone ready for some edutainment?" the man asked, grinning out at his audience. The group of children stared, several looking horrified and the silence was only broken by one girl in the front row breaking down into tears so the teacher have to rush in and take her out of the demonstration room. The man frowned. "Don't you kids like dinosaurs?"
"My mother says Satan put the bones in the earth to trick us," one little boy chirped. "Do you worship Saran?"
"No, I'm a Catholic," the man said and before he could be cut off again, rushed in. "Does anyone here think dinosaurs are cool? Want to tell me 'bout it?"
A small girl in a pink skirt nodded eagerly, raising her hand. "I'm Sam and I think dinosaurs are cool because they're dead, and I'd like to bring them back to life and everyone would run and panic would be really cool."
He nodded awkwardly. "Alright. Anyone else?"
"I'm Tucker, and I think that the computer generated dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were really cool. I hope I can design that some day."
"Anyone else?" he asked, then leaned down to a boy who looked relatively normal. "Hey, kiddo, I bet you like dinosaurs right?"
"Uh huh."
"What do you like about dinosaurs?"
"Well, they're big and some of them eat other ones and they're really cool. Oh!" His face lit up. "And they aren't ghosts, so I don't have to worry about my parents trying to destroy them!"
Needless to say, Casper elementary was not invited back.