the dark side of spending your day with kids

Monday was Halloween. The 5th grade teacher made a haunted house in her room and grade schoolers in costumes went through it. They waited to enter the haunted house right outside my classroom. As I walked up the stairs to get into my room, this 5th grade girl walks out of the crowd. She's dressed in something you'd see in a Christmas Pageant. She looks like a Wise Man minus the crown and minus the Man. She looks so proud of herself and her clever costume. "Do you know what I am?" I innocently replied, "no". She puffs up and gets ready to deliver a great line, "I'm an idiot foreigner." Dear God!