Reese's and Debt Cancellation

Last year a student argued quite adamantly with me that Reese’s peanut butter cups are food, not candy. She wrote a persuasive essay on the topic, and later tried bribing me with the candy, all to no satisfactory avail.

The dispute, which has grown, has also not ended.

Even last year she began including the classification change requirement in her bill for my promised awards for classroom participation (“The person who answers this question gets $100,000,” I would sometimes say), and this year she has reasserted her claims over my ideas about food–and the monetary compensation pledges:

Last week she came into my classroom before school started and gave me a present–Reese’s peanut butter cups, homemade chocolate-pretzel treats, and a card:

“Don’t tell any of my other teachers from last year,” she said. “I don’t want them to feel bad, because you’re the only one I’m giving a present to.”

I’ve amended her card, to be returned to her today: