Queen of Science - 13 A Happy Day for Many

Monday, June 1st, 2054. 3:00 pm.

Students are coming home from school with grins on their faces. School bus drivers are shocked that the children and adolescents are actually not talking about how awful school is! They are talking about their grades and studying! Have the children been kidnapped and replaced with aliens? What normal student wants to talk about showing their grades to their parents?

As the smart little kids step off the bus, they graciously thank their bus drivers and briskly walk home. Taking their exam out of their backpack, they wave it around and run up to their guardians.

“Dad! Guess what I got!”

“What did you get?”

Handing the piece of paper to her father, a little girl stands tall and puffs out her cheeks.

“Look!”

On the piece of paper are a big “100/100” and “A+” written in red pen.

With wide eyes, the father picks up his daughter and spins her around while exclaiming, “You are so amazing my brilliant baby girl!”

Slightly dazed from spinning around, the girl blushes and eyes her dad, “Thank you ~ Of course, I am amazing. Whose daughter do you think I am?”

A man walks into the room and says, “Clearly you’re my daughter!” The man wraps his arms around his husband and exclaims, “Naturally you got all your smarts from me.”

Many heartwarming scenes like this took place all over the country.

Parents and students are not the only ones feeling proud and happy today! Teachers are also feeling extra accomplished. During the daily teacher meeting after school, the head teacher of each department is reading off their reports.

“This year’s mid-term exams had an overall 30% grade increase relative to last year!”

“Although we would like to say that students performed better due to our work, almost nothing changed relative to last year. It seems that the biggest difference is Simply Explained. We are considering advising students to use Simply Explained when studying or confused about a concept taught in class.”

In the minds of parents and teachers, the grades were proof that Simple Explained is helpful to students and not detrimental. Who said that Simple Explained is just some gimmick? Not me! Simply Explained is a great teaching tool!

Over the following days, the people who tried to denounce Simply Explained became ashamed and had to announce their apologies.

Some thick-skinned people had the gall to claim that they never said anything bad about Simply Explained and even shamed other past dissenters. With a brief search through a person’s comment history, those thick-skinned people were quickly revealed and shamed to no end.

Those who dare to mess with a child’s education and then lie about it have no hope against a protective parent!

The parents who initiated the fear-mongering and anti-Simply Explained propaganda were banned from all education and parent advice related websites and blogs.

Although there was still a small group of people skeptical of Simply Explained, a little healthy skepticism and critical thinking won’t hurt anyone. If anything, Fern wants to encourage critical thinking because it is incredibly important for education and research.

In a passive-aggressive way, Fern posted a lesson on critical thinking its importance. For an example, Fern included a case of a website being denounced and criticized without evidence of any wrong-doing. Although Fern did not mention any specific names or numbers, it was pretty clear to netizens that the case example was about Simply Explained and its previous dissenters.

With Fern’s cool response to the series of events and the notable increase in students’ grades, Simple Explained’s reputation was higher than ever before!

Simply Explained started gaining attention from policymakers and people from other countries. Newspapers became more aware of Simply Explained and it entered mainstream media.

Old grandmas and grandpas started scolding their children and saying, “Have you heard of Simply Explained? Why is my grandchild not learning from it? Don’t you want your child to receive a proper education? Humph.”

Psychologists and neuroscientists started doing research on the impacts of online learning on brain development.

Politicians started debating whether or not online education should be allowed and what rules should be established.

As peoples’ concept of education and how it should occur was mashed up and flipped around like scrambled eggs, Fern was calmly watching on her computer and eating imaginary popcorn.

Fern’s birthday is in a couple of days and she has decided to tell her parents about Simply Explained once she is one year old! Although Fern has done a decent job hiding her nightly activities from her parents, she thinks that Camilla is started to realize that something funky is going on.