Caveat: Teacher, Go Home

Yesterday, Chris, a child of very little English, ran up to me and breathlessly said, "Teacher, go home." Unfortunately, it was not time for me to go home.

My colleague Grace overheard this and said, "Why is he telling you to go home?"

I said that I wasn't sure. My suspicion is that he was simply so excited to have mastered the (admittedly quite simple) grammar of the expression, he had to try it out. 

I was so proud of this idiomatic usage that I decided to disregard the failed pragmatics.

[daily log: walking, 1 km]

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