MARION, Ohio -- It was definitely a first for the Marion, Ohio Police Department.
They recently received a Facebook message from 5th-grader, Lena, asking for help with her homework.
The message from the 10-year-old started out like this:
"I'm having trouble with my homework. could you help me?"
Police said, "What's up?
Lena: "I need a little help with my homework"
Police: "Ok with what?"
Lena: "Well I don't understand (8+29) x 15?
Police: "Do the numbers in the parenthesis first so in essence it would be 37 x 15"
Lena: "Ok now if I had this (90+27)+(29+15)x2"
Police: "Take the answer from the first parenthesis plus the answer from the second parenthesis and multiply that answer by two."
Unfortunately, the answer was wrong -- but it's the thought that counts, right?
Lena's mom loved what the the Marion Police Department did so much, she shared the conversation on her Facebook page, and wrote:
The police department commented on the post:
Then, later, they shared her post and said: