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Spitball
In the second-to-last row, Patricia Parker’s mahogany skin is warmed by the sun as she sits in her favorite class, math. She stares out the window as her teacher explains math problems she has already completed. Pat has known how to do this kind of math since she was six years old, and the outside world is far more interesting than Mrs. Walters’s lesson on solving for x.
Mrs. Walters’s algebra class is overstuff
