One time I got kicked out of Language Arts for talking during another student's presentation. After a while Mrs. Stoltzfus came out into the hallway and said "You can come back in if you're ready to treat your peers with mutual respect."
Being a seventh-grader, I forgot what "peer" meant and thought it meant "superior." Complaining about the incident to another classmate, I angrily said, "Stephen is not my peer."
I just meant he wasn't better than me, but obviously what I said pretty awful.
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