My kid makes me smile

Edith told me about her day at school, which included a mouse in the neighboring classroom, ball handling relay races in gym, colors in spoken Chinese and numbers in written Chinese, and a fun drawing app in technology.

Then she wanted to know about my day. I told her about  all the classes I taught today, including the three classes I covered for colleagues celebrating Rosh Hashanah. "And in the tenth grade, we played a Black Plague game, and some of the students got the plague and died," I finished.

"Oh," she said. "So there are rats in the school, too. But Mom, I think you're going to get some angry calls from parents."