Homework for third graders

My 8 year old is now learning how to write in cursive in school. He has known since kindergarten how to write his name in cursive so I figured he would not have too much trouble with this. He brought home some homework yesterday where he had to write this poem from a worksheet in cursive. He did great. I read his cursive handwriting just fine. As I was reading I thought he had written some words wrong so I checked it with the poem on the top of the worksheet. And sure enough he had every single word right.

" There's too many kids in this tub.
There's too many elbows to scrub.
I just washed a behind
That I'm sure wasn't mine,
There's too many kids in this tub."

There's nothing like talking about washing somebody else's butt to get a third grader going. With the way things are today, if they had told him to make up his own poem and he wrote that...he probably would have been suspended! Hmm...I would love to see that one hanging on the acheivement board outside the classroom for all to see!