A small episode during lesson...

The students were given some time to look through their spelling words before the Spelling test begins. There were several students who were chatting despite given the opportunity to revise. To spur them to study, they were challenged to achieve full score for the test. However, the shock came when one student rudely replied, "What the heck!".

The unimaginable issue here is the existence of such vocabulary from a 9 year-old. What came as a double shock was that the student was one of meek character, usually. (I have not known the class longer enough though) I thought I needed to inform her parents to alert them about her unusual outburst so that they can pull her back to the right track. However, on seeing that she was repentful, I decided to convince myself that she could have picked that from a friend and found it 'cool' to say it without knowing the meaning, so I let it go.