You can misspell could, wanted, and school. Hell, you can wish to blow the school up. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let you disrespect the great state of Kentucky!
interesting to know these things were going through kids' minds even back then even though it hadn't really happened before, except for that one "I don't like Mondays" girl
interesting how the teacher handled it in 1989, just corrected one of many spelling errors, commented "Ouch, " and I suppose nothing was addressed or punished.
nowadays I'm pretty sure the kid would be expelled from school for all of eternity and put into juvenile detention Center with 24/7 security guard watch. Maybe.
In first or second grade, so, about 6-7 years old in the late 80s, we all knew a song called "On top of ol Smokey." Which was an actual song, but I think most people heard it as on top of spaghetti.