Kids say the darndest things from time to time!

And the kid you’re about to hear from in this story from Reddit’s “Malicious Compliance” page can only be described with one word: CLEVER.

Check out how they played by their teacher’s rules and came out on top!

Whatever you do, don’t speak French.

“This happened in school when I was around 15.

It was in a French speaking region and my English class had a very strict but somewhat sassy teacher, Miss Jones.

The one golden rule was no French.

You had to speak in English no matter what (except emergencies of course).

Miss Jones wasn’t messing around but she had a sense of humor.

For example, one day, during recess, someone wrote on the board “Miss Jones is a beach”.

LOL.

When she saw it, she started screaming “What is wrong with you? I’m not a beach! I’m a *****!”

Then she spelled correctly the word and wrote it on the board.

She added “besides, it’s not a bad thing, it’s stands for a Babe In Total Control of Herself.”

One day, in class, Miss Jones mentioned war, and a student didn’t know what that word meant.

So Miss Jones starts explaining it in English, the student doesn’t get it.

Other students pitch in, still in English, to no results.

This goes on for some time. I get fed up and say: “this is a waste of time, can we just translate the word in French and move on?”

Miss Jones answers “Well if you’re so smart, why don’t you explain what it means? And NO FRENCH!”.

Oh, I get it!

All right, I start making pow pow noises, explosions, imitating war planes, the whole deal.

It takes 3 seconds to the student to yell I GET IT.”

Now let’s see what Reddit users had to say about this.

This person shared their thoughts.

Another reader weighed in.

This Reddit user had a lot to say.

And one person spoke up.

Those pesky kids can be so clever sometimes!

You have to give them credit.

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