Yet another fun feature of being a religion teacher: the kids think that you are some sort of arbiter of Divine Justice. Every class, it seems, a student will start a long anecdote beginning with "Miss P, this one time I blah blah blah..." and ending with "so, is that a mortal sin?"

The next time some kid tries that, I'm going to stare at them silently, and then say, in a hushed, solemn tone of voice: "Yes. Yes it is."