The Report Card
““What happened? What’d she say? Are you in trouble?”
“Not too much,” I said. “But she got pretty mad. And she wants to put me in the gifted program right away.”
“What else?” he asked. “What about the tests and everything?”
I shook my head. “I’ll tell you all about it on the bus, okay? I need to finish this reading.”
That wasn’t exactly true. What I really needed was time to think. Because I could see where all this was going—but I couldn’t tell where it would end. The plan Stephen and I had mad...e had sounded good when we were talking about it, and it had been kind of fun to be a show-off genius one day and then get three zeroes the next.
But something Mrs. Hackney had said really got me. She’d said, “. . . you have upset all your teachers.”
And that got me thinking. If they were all upset now, how were they going to feel if we really got the school stirred up? Because that was probably going to happen. Our plan was to get as many kids as we could to start getting zeroes.MoreLess
“Not too much,” I said. “But she got pretty mad. And she wants to put me in the gifted program right away.”
“What else?” he asked. “What about the tests and everything?”
I shook my head. “I’ll tell you all about it on the bus, okay? I need to finish this reading.”
That wasn’t exactly true. What I really needed was time to think. Because I could see where all this was going—but I couldn’t tell where it would end. The plan Stephen and I had mad...e had sounded good when we were talking about it, and it had been kind of fun to be a show-off genius one day and then get three zeroes the next.
But something Mrs. Hackney had said really got me. She’d said, “. . . you have upset all your teachers.”
And that got me thinking. If they were all upset now, how were they going to feel if we really got the school stirred up? Because that was probably going to happen. Our plan was to get as many kids as we could to start getting zeroes.MoreLess
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