Ever since the start of virtual school, my 7yos English work has revolved around a story called Molly Makes A Difference, about a manatee called Molly who stops speedboats from speeding in shallow water in Florida by putting up posters telling them not to. I have... Questions.
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There’s this whole module about how Molly makes a difference in her community to teach them about volunteering and stuff, and I’m just. You could’ve picked any story! You could’ve had an actual child doing a realistic thing and used that as your example! But no: POSTER MANATEE.
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A quick google search shows there is an actual published - but UNRELATED - book called Molly the Manatee, so on top of everything else this dumb story is half plagiarised from someone else’s actual work. Lovely.
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Like honestly, a manatee making posters is objectively hilarious, I want to be cackling at this but I’m having to work through all the manatee-adjacent models while helping my kid and it is, shall we say, Wearing On My Sense Of Humour.
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Unfortunately, with laxer enforcement, over 125 manatees were killed by boaters last year.
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Oh, they do not. And those guys ignore the metal and wood signs put up by other humans, so I'm not sanguine about the transformative power of soggy posters made a well intentioned manatee (even if graphic design is its passion).
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