Why shouldn’t he be happy to see us? Yitzy thought to himself. Since I didn’t get a hundred on the math test, he gets to keep the building instead of us
The clock on the classroom wall read one thirty.
Yitzy was not surprised to see the school secretary walk into his class and whisper to his teacher. He was also not surprised to see his teacher walk over to his desk and ask him to leave. Yitzy quickly packed up his things and began walking out of the classroom.
Outside the classroom door, he found his parents waiting for him.
“Hi Yitzy,” said his mother, “how was school today?”
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