Z and the Proposal

I had a student in Utah who has Down Syndrome. And boy did it not stop him! Talk about a social butterfly! He had so many friends that it often became a problem. At the time, I was single and went by Miss Sangster. Well Z was quite a flirt with "the ladies" and he would say. One day at the beginning of his first year in my class, I was walking with him down the hall of the school. He stopped, got down on one knee, grabbed my hand and said "Miss Sangster, will you marry me?" I didn't know WHAT to do. They never taught me how to deal with student proposals in my special ed certification program! Wanting to laugh, but worried an administrator would turn the corner (or ANYONE, actually), I told him that he had to wait until he was 25 and then come talk to me.

This is the same student who, in the MIDDLE of my lesson, burst out: "Miss Sangster- you HOT!"