I remember when I was younger I got in trouble in school because I said “cun-crete” instead of concrete, and then again when I said “axe” instead of ask.

Like the woman literally fucking looked at me and said, “We do not axe questions in this classroom, we ask them, young lady. You’re smarter than that. Now what are you gonna do the next time you don’t know something?”

“I'mma axe you a question like I’ve been doing. By the way, gonna isn’t a word. It’s ’going to’.”

She kicked my ass out. I spent the rest of second grade axe-ing questions and correcting her grammar. She hated my ass.

This is also the same woman who told me I couldn’t read on my level because I embarrassed the other kids and made them feel bad, but let the white and white-passing boys read on level, and we were all on the same level.