So, a smart aleck, or what?

A week or two ago, Reed was having his spelling test. He was doing great, all the way up til #26. Evidently Mrs. Gill-Anderson has it drilled in their heads that whatever word she says right after she says the number is the spelling word. So she said "Twenty-six" and then had to tell a kid to "shush". Well you can guess what spelling word Reed wrote down. Shush. And got the question wrong because the actual spelling word was Speed. He said "She said 'the next word is your spelling word so that's what I wrote!'. Oh well.