256. The teacher tells the class that when we go home we should ask our parents to check our heads for nits. (He doesn’t tell anyone that my mum handed him a note this morning, and that I know for sure that my head has no nits in it TODAY.)

257. The homework for the week is to watch television and analyse the advertisements.

258.The teacher gives us work that is so, so hard, then allocates groups and I am with a hard working genius.

259. You have a part to read in front of the school, and you can’t read well, but the teacher begs you to give it a go. Then he listens to you read again and again and again, and he has confidence in you. He even makes a promise with you that if you read, he’ll reward the whole class. When you do eventually read he tells you what a brilliant job you did and he rewards the class. (Even though you know you made mistakes. But now, they don’t really seem to matter.)

260.The person beside you is away for the term, so you get to have an extra desk to dump your books on.

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