As most of you know, I teach special education, and a good number of my students have difficulty with one or more areas of learning. My language arts period is for students with learning disabilities in reading, and uses a variety of drills to help kids learn to break words down and decode them more easily. This is one of the easier ones, but, as usual, I can’t get through ANYTHING without D’Avonte making it interesting. They were supposed to be adding suffixes to words…
Me: “Add a suffix to happy.”
Class: “Happiness!”
Me: “Add a suffix to beauty.”
Class: “Beautiful!”
Me: “Add a suffix to self.”
D’Avonte: “SYPHILIS!”
Fisticuffs and Shenanigans 