Star Student *part Two*

At the end of Amedeo’s week as Star Student he came home with a large poster labeled “Compliments For Amedeo” across the top. They are as follows:
He’s a good sport.
He runs fast.
He’s nice and silly.
He is a good friend.
He’s good at kickball.
He knows how to spell a lot of big words.
He doesn’t cheat in games.
He’s fair at games.
He’s a smart student.
I find the majority of these statements to be true. I especially like the “he knows how to spell a lot of big words,” because one day after school he told me he knew how to spell spaghetti. He spelled it out correctly and I told him it was awesome, because it’s a tough word that I don’t always spell right. When I asked if he learned it in class, he told me that he saw it written on the lunch menu and memorized it. By that I was really impressed and told him that was really amazing that he figured that out on his on and now knows how to spell it. For the rest of the day, however, he lorded his new found knowledge over both Eban and Ida and more or less acted like an asshole about it. He would try to get them to spell it and I would hear him say, “I can’t believe you don’t know how to spell spaghetti!” I tried to explain to him that, while it was really cool that he learned a big word, no one would really care if he was a total dick about it.
When we put up the compliment poster I immediately asked Madee about the “doesn’t cheat” and “fair at games” comments. I know these to be totally inaccurate. Madee, more so than Eban, is a little cheater when we’re playing games. It’s been a long running joke, because he’s always cheating and then saying, “what? No! I didn’t,” all with a total bullshit look on his face. It’s never a malicious thing and it’s usually kind of cute seeing him try to get away with it. Derryck was here when I asked Madee about the poster and he kind of smiled and paused a second. I said, this is totally untrue, you do cheat! He said, “No I don’t! Well…I don’t at school. Derryck said, “So there’s the public Amedeo and the private Amedeo.” Madee just smiled.