Today, during a class discussion about summarizing, a fourth grader piped up with this totally unrelated comment: “My cousin has worms in his butt that causes blisters.” Okay, I GUESS it could be considered a summary, but it definitely was NOT on topic.

The other kids giggled. I said, “Thanks for sharing that.” We went on with the lesson.

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