March 28, 2008

My 'Little Professor'

By M. PATTERSON

The pre-Thanksgiving assignment my son's second-grade teacher gave her students was to write an appeal for clemency from the perspective of a turkey. While the other children wrote emotional testimonials based on the turkey's love of life and family, my son wrote the following: "Don't eat me. Eat the three sisters: corn, beans, and squash. Have wild rice, black walnuts, aloe yucca. Do you want fish? Greater amberjack, rainbow runner, bullet mackerel, red, yellowfin tuna. You can have