"I Have to Do My Homework"

Today was a phenomenon.
We have teenagers here all day everyday after school complaining that they are bored. They don't want to read so we give them other activities to do. LIke today, we had these Professional Pumpkin Carvers come in to show off thier work. Which was very impressive. They even made a pumpkin with a kid reading just for our library! Well, we invited all the kids to go and check it out. And they mostly said, that's boring. And then to make it even more frustrating, they would say 5 minutes later, "I'm bored." ... Teenagers....
Well, one kid came in and made me proud of the teenage world again. I invited him as he came in to the pumpkin carving extravaganza. And he actually said this, believe it or not, "No, I can't today. I have to do my homework." What!? I was so impressed, and doubtful, that I check on him periodically and yes, he was actually doing his homework. Maybe I should tell the kids that are bored to do thier homewrok since they seem to like it more than pumpkin shows...