Narwin’s class after he writes a flippant response to an essay question. Philip receives a C- on his winter term exam in Ms. Narwin is a committed but burned-out teacher discouraged by her inability to reach her students, who are mostly uninterested in the books they read in her class. Philip’s only worry is that he is struggling in his English class, taught by twenty-year teaching veteran Ms. Philip, a student in this district, writes in his diary about his excitement over the possibility of finally joining the highschool track team, a dream that is as important to him as it is to his father, who had to give up running and drop out of college to work a sales job to support his family. Students are to listen silently and respectfully while the national anthem is played. The novel opens with a district-wide memo from Superintendent Seymour on the morning public announcements in the Harrison School District.
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