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                         THE FUN THEY HAD - 3                                
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"I've slowed it up to an average ten-year level. Actually, the over-all      
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pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory." And he patted Margie's head  
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again.                                                                       
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   Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher  
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away altogether. They had once had Tommy's teacher away for nearly a month   
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because the history sector had blanked out completely.                       
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   So she said to Tommy, "Why would anyone write about school?"              
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   Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. "Because it's not our kind of
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school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and    
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hundreds of years ago." He added loftily, pronouncing the word carefully,    
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"Centuries ago."                                                             
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   Margie was hurt. "Well, I don't know what kind of school they had all that
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time ago." She read the book over his shoulder for a while, then said, "Any- 
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way, they had a teacher."                                                    
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   "Sure they had a teacher, but it wasn't a regular teacher. It was a man." 
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   "A man? How could a man be a teacher?"                                    
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   "Well, he just told the boys and girls things and gave them homework and  
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asked them questions."                                                       
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   "A man isn't smart enough."                                               
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