"You can beat my kid if he gives you any more trouble."
Yeah.
This was the translation from Akha to English.
We all stared at each other blankly--each one of us secretly wondering--hoping that there was some kind of translation error.
The words came from the student's mother. He had apparently been asked to leave the school temporarily a few days prior for continually interrupting class. She was appealing to the head of our school and to us, his teachers, on her son's behalf in the only way that she knew . . .
