My daughter is in this class.  She is not so interested in academic topics (ex: Geography of Africa) at this juncture.  But she was SO EXCITED about doing this assignment.  She wanted to work on it a week before it was due.  So we did it twice, by her choice.  The cost was minimal (2 cake mixes).  Apparently no good deed goes unpunished in Portland OR.  Public school teaching is not for the faint of heart - and it's not the students who make it so.