“showin’ they respect”

You just have to read this post. A public school teacher in The Bronx describes the week where he showed To Kill a Mockingbird to his class.

I’m in tears! So so funny, but it just GETS ya at the end. I am HOWLING about how openly bored his students were with The Pearl –

“Mista! ‘Da Pearl’ again? Pearl, pearl, pearl. All the day ‘The Pearl.’ I go the bed at night I see ‘Pearl.’ Morning again, ‘Pearl.’”

“Indira, I uhhh…” I tried to interject, but she was on a roll, and I…

“Mista. When your wife wanna go out… Dinner? Movie? Da Club? Naw… you say ‘Da Pearl?’”

Ouch.

via Kimberly Swygert