Okay, so, after lobbying to be allowed to teach a Christmas song to my fourth graders, we finally settled for teaching a song but not testing on it.
We went with "Deck the halls," because it's more in the spirit of the season than the holy spirit...
Anyway... I have now discovered that 90% of my students can't say the word "Deck".
Most of them, thankfully, say "Duck" instead, which I can work with.
But around 25% seem to be running with "Dick the ho's with boos of hoary."
Dammit.
We went with "Deck the halls," because it's more in the spirit of the season than the holy spirit...
Anyway... I have now discovered that 90% of my students can't say the word "Deck".
Most of them, thankfully, say "Duck" instead, which I can work with.
But around 25% seem to be running with "Dick the ho's with boos of hoary."
Dammit.