Our New School Mascot

We have a new program at the school this year. We are dividing our upper grade students by English language proficiency and doing 45 minutes of instruction each day dedicated to improving their language skills. I recognized the importance of that this morning while doing our postcard exchange activity. We were writing postcards to schools in all 50 states. Each student had a list of items they might want to include in their message. One child wrote that our state flower was the Seegoo lillie. That was bad enough. But my favorite was the child who informed their counterpart in Illinois that our school mascot was the "Lincoln leper."

Explains a lot, doesn't it?