A tad unfair
as I suppose special needs kids are by definition ignorant but...

My mother and her educationally/behaviourly challenged class were working in the 'conservation area' (scummy pond behind school) and they found a little black kitten. Coal black, pitch black, etc. The school decided it could be a school cat and the following conversation ensued.

Mum: "What shall we call the kitten"

Backward child: "Snowy"

Mum: "No, we can't call it Snowy. Who knows why we can't call it Snowy?"

Cue furious cogitation (apart from the strange child who is rubbing himself in the corner)

BC2: "Because it's summer?"

As has already been said many times- Bless 'em
(clapper, Fri 7 Jan 2005, 12:04, Reply)