Student: Miss, S, please let me...
Me: No, I can't.
Student: We won't tell...
Me: Yes, but you'll know that I broke the rules.
Student: So, we all break the rules.
Me: Yes, but I am not going to do it.
One student: Listen, our ancestors broke the rules. We are Mexican!
Another student: Yes--everyone broke the rules way back when. The whites came to this land and took over...
You never know what will be the spark for a great conversation in my class...never would have thought me not letting them do what they wanted would have brought us back to Christopher Columbus' era.
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