In school the other day, a student came over to me and put up their middle finger. They stood there with it up at me, in my face, and just looked at me as if to say, “hey teach, fuck you for not letting me play in the kitchen area.”

Stunned, I looked at the student and said, “what’s that?”

“I need a bandaid, it’s bleeding” they said.

Taken aback for a moment, I realized I was not being flipped off but being shown a pin size speck which needed to be bandaged.