One of my homeroom students, who is an English language learner, was explaining to me why she couldn't stay after school that afternoon. "I have to go somewhere and I don't want to get laid," she said in a Spanish accent.
My eyes widened and my brows shot up as I tried to process what she was telling me. Then I got it. "In English we say 'be late'," I told her. "You don't want to be late."
"Right," she said, "I don't want that!"
For sure.
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