A+P Catholics and is ghettoish a word?

I'm falling behind some on these so I'm going to try and catch up. Yesterday, the fourth grade class was visited by one of our parish priests. Father is very funny when he comes, often times I feel like a horrible teacher when he is there because of the random answers by my students to his questions. When Father came he wanted to discuss Holy Week with the class and asked the class what was happening in the church right now?

Benedict is called on and says, "Holy Week."

Father responds back with "Do you mean Holy Week or HOOOLY Week?"

Benedict is puzzled, which one does he pick, so he says "I think Holy Week."

"Correct. And who can tell me when Holy Week starts?"

This is where we get all kinds of answers, like today, tomorrow, Thursday, Easter, but Regina finally gives us the correct answer and says, "Sunday."

Father then tells the children that they probably noticed that more people were at church on Sunday for Palm Sunday. He then asks, "Who can tell me what we call these Catholics?"

The children and myself have nothing to say, so he responds back with, "We call them A + P Catholics."

I'm not sure, I guess we were supposed to laugh, because he then said, "Oh, you don't get, Ashes and Palms Catholics."

I said, "Oh, I never heard that, I have only heard of CEOs."

It took Father a couple minutes, but when he got it he laughed.

Father then went into detail about each of the special days during Holy Week, focusing on the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday. He then discussed with the children how there are three oils and how they are used for different sacraments. This is one of those moments where as a teacher, you realize how bad your students can make you look as a teacher.

Father asks, "Have you learned about the sacraments?"

Half the class, "No."

Are you kidding me, these kids have heard about the sacraments since Kindergarten and probably preschool! We talk about the sacraments all the time. In fact the children just got done focusing on the sacrament of Baptism. Father then asks to have additional time with my class, so he can talk about the sacraments. Oh, one of these days, I'm going to pay these kids back for that one.

After our visit with Father, we moved onto Social Studies. We are currently studying the Civil War, which is big stuff in my class, the boys are so interested in the Civil War and have been counting down until we started the Civil War. The students quickly learned the union and the confederate states. I brought to their attention that West Virginia was a union state and Virginia a confederate state and why did they think West Virginia became a state and a union state.

Joseph raises his hand, "Well, West Virginia is kind of ghettoish and so they decided to be a state of their own."

I responded, "Mr. G. is from West Virginia are you saying he is from the ghetto?"

The class gasps. Really no one wants to offend the principal.

Joseph decides to say, "Well, it used to be a long time ago during the war. Are you going to tell him I said that?"