adventures in inner city education

Dedicated and over-educated teacher leaves the pampered comfort of a Stanford PhD program to teach at a small, stereotypically 'inner city' elementary school in Washington, DC. And blogs about it.

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Things You Only Hear During Black History Month

This might be one of those conversations where you had to be there, but here it goes:

Me: "What was George Washington Carver's claim to fame, class?"
Ernest: "He invented peanuts!"
Me:"Um, not quite, but you're on the right track."
Ernest: "Oooooh. Right. *GOD* invented peanuts. George Washington Carver invented *peanut butter.*"

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