![]() ![]() Surely they can’t all be mistaken about your intellectual capacity. ![]() “You have a lot of fans at this school, Mr. “Where is that incredible promise I hear my colleagues chatting about in the teachers’ lounge?” Mr. Sitting directly to his left, I could see the tension in his shoulder muscles, the sweat starting to bead up on his neck. Simpson railed on, Ryan stared at his desk, his head bowed so far that his chin gouged his collarbone. But more and more, this was how history class went: Simpson called on Ryan, repeatedly, until he made a mistake. Simpson he needed to be taken down a notch-or seven. I had no idea what it was about him that had convinced Mr. Ryan was a big guy: a little on the quiet side, a little shy. Is that so hard to remember? Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in eighteen sixty-three.” As far as I could tell, my history teacher had three passions in life: quoting Shakespeare, identifying historical inaccuracies in cable TV shows, and berating Ryan Washburn. ![]()
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