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Both the AP and the Post picked up the Presidential Inaugural Committee's decision to hold an essay contest to award parade viewing stand tickets to over 100 D.C. students. The contest, which asks students to write 500-word essays responding to the question, "How can I contribute to my neighborhood through community service?", is open to any public or private middle school or high school student in the District. Since the contest is aimed at minors, the PIC is asking parents to submit their child's essay for them, which can't help but make us wonder how many of these essays will basically be written by the parents instead of the kids. Selected entrants get three free parade tickets -- so parents, click here to get started on your (ahem) child's application. Essays are due by 11:59 p.m. on January 11.
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500-word essay on community service, eh? How about writing "Don't throw rocks at whitey" 100 times?
It's going to be a tough call trying to distinguish between parent-written reports and ones done by kids, since functional illiteracy tends to run in families. Fortunately, Google and copy-paste have saved many a moribund unfortunate from the very brink of Lazarus' box. Or Pandora's box. Or something.
I would love to see every submission for this contest posted on the web.
You just know that one of these essays will begin:
"I would like to win tickets to the parade so that the man that sleeps over with my mom and who I call my uncle can sell them so that he can get new rims for his 1988 Caprice that he bought from the police auction last year."