Seven-year-old child outsmarts everyone with brilliantly realistic answer to ridiculous homework question
‘When I am 100 years old, I think I will look like this!’
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Your support makes all the difference.A seven-year-old boy has made his parents and teachers laugh by giving a brutally realistic answer to an aspirational homework question.
“My son, at age 7, school assignment,” a Reddit user posted on the site with a picture of his child’s homework.
The image shows a white piece of paper with the outline of a picture frame drawn onto it in black ink, and the words: “When I am 100 years old, I think I will look like this!” written above it.
Instead of drawing himself as an old man with white hair, the Reddit user’s son has drawn himself as a stick figure lying in a coffin, buried in the earth, with two flowers growing from his grave.
The Reddit user said they thought it was an odd assignment for a seven-year-old, but that “most of the kids drew long hair/beards”.
The teachers then hung all of the pictures in the hallway outside of the classrooms so the parents could see them when they visited the school.
The teachers “all thought it was funny as hell,” the user added. “When we went in for conferences we had about 10 teachers and all the office staff ask if we had seen it.”
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