Ah, to be 8 and innocent again.

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I have a sign above the chalkboard in my classroom that reads "Ideas Count". One of my third grade guys decided today that he would read it to the class.

Problem is that he's not the world phonetics champion. He left out the "o" in "count".

"Ideas c*nt!" he announced.

Mr. Uly looked up, more than a little bit startled.

"Ideas c*nt!" he said again, with perfect enunciation and quite pleased with himself.

None of these guys even remotely knows the "c word", so I just corrected him. "It's 'cOUnt', Zach." God give me the strength, he got it wrong a third time.

So math was interrupted for a while today for a short lesson on the sound "ou" make together. Along with the kid who had a brain cramp and called me "daddy" at one point, it was an interesting class...