And if you can spell "cape"...

I was teaching a reading RTI group, and we were working on long A with a silent E at the end

So my banter went something like this: "Oh, cape! What are the sounds in cape? That's right, /c/ /A/ /p/. And if you can spell "cape", you can spell "tape"! And if you can spell "tape"...

(I'm scanning the alphabet chart at this point)

And then one of the girls pipes up (totally innocently, I think...?) - "You can spell RAPE!!!"

I ignored her completely, and just moved right along.