Black People Don't Read?

In my third period a black girl from Brooklyn said that black people don't read. Quite a bit of the class laughed, except her.

It is a serious problem. I'm glad she's being honest.

I made the stupidest mistake ever! She told the story about a tsunami victim who had a giant wave wash over him. I'm thinking, "Oh cool, what a great strategy. The wave will wash over and he will harmlessly drift out to sea."

Shows how stupid I can be! The whole class was laughing when they realized from my questions that I thought the man lived. She said, incredulous I could believe such a stupid thing, "No! He died in the water! The wave was too powerful!"

I had seen the video of the tsunami. I knew how powerful it was but I wasn't thinking.

Back to teaching at night...