Racial Tensions

My SAT students are fun, but it seems like the SSAT [sic] classes have the best stories. (I hadn't heard of it before this summer, but the SSAT is a test to get into selective high schools)

One teacher told us that after she finished explaining a problem or concept, one of the boys in her class would look up at her and exclaim "Lies!" in a reptilian voice.

Today, the talk in the teacher's lounge was centered around the fight that almost broke out between two boys in the SSAT class- one boy was making fun of another boy for having tan skin. The boy being made fun of apparently took this as an insult.

Oh, the problems of living in a homogeneous society.