A little background....

I thought some context might be nice about the student who penned the letters contained in the following post. He was one of my students the very first year I was an instructional aide at a rural high school, and I would say we were equally clueless, just in different ways. Some highlights of my time working with him include:

• The day he told me that I looked "kinda fat."
• The first day of school his junior year when he showed up in a custom designed t-shirt that said "I love Beyonce"
• The time he wrote all of the lyrics to the Beyonce song "Irreplaceable" on a chalkboard
• The time an English teacher accused him of plagiarizing a narrative essay when really all he had done was written the entire plot of a telenovela and passed it off as the story of his family.
• The time he hacked into the library's student database, printed about 50 enlarged copies of another student's photo and wrote "Missing!!!!" "Have you seen her?????" "Where is Leticia???" on them and posted them around the campus.

Anyway, when he asked me to write a letter to the judge at the Mexican Consulate about why he should be granted US citizenship, I was kind of at a loss, except that I can only assume that someone this savvy has great things to contribute to our great nation.