Flutterby™! : Can't even spell the dirty words

Woman teaches summer school, discovers that kids can't even spell the dirty words right. Funny and sad on several levels, like when she writes:

It never occurred to me that human suffering was off-subject because to me it always had been the subject -- not of algebra, maybe, but surely of English.

Well, that explains a hell of a lot about my high school English experience. But it's also telling that when she finally gets through to the kids, she runs into other issues:

"So you've mastered the noun," I said menacingly, moving in close to Jack's sweaty face. "How 'bout the verb? How about this? The bitchy bitch bitched bitchily!" I stepped back, elated. "There! How many parts of speech did I use?"

Though this spontaneous grammar lesson marked the first time my students had actually grasped the adverbial, the dean was not impressed....