Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee
“Her predecessor, Miss Evralena Sledge, had not had a new thought in fifty years when she keeled over during the Pledge of Allegiance one morning. Her students could barely suppress their desire to applaud as it was the quickest they had ever seen her move.
“I suppose she’ll think we’re a bunch of backwater simpletons and mental defectives from the dark ages,” Emily McCormick was saying to the principal, Travis Skelton. “I hope we won’t embarrass ourselves into scaring her away right off.”
“Well, she must have seen something she liked in us or Mosly or both, because she’s already bought herself a house.” Mr. Skelton, being the principal of the Junior High, took some pride in the place and didn’t plan on cringing before his newly hired teacher no matter where she’d gone to school or grown up. “She’ll fit in in no time, you wait and see, Emily. Don’t bother yourself so.”
“I’m not bothered, Travis, I just want her to like Mosly. I think we should plan a little get-together to welcome her ...before classes start.”MoreLess
“I suppose she’ll think we’re a bunch of backwater simpletons and mental defectives from the dark ages,” Emily McCormick was saying to the principal, Travis Skelton. “I hope we won’t embarrass ourselves into scaring her away right off.”
“Well, she must have seen something she liked in us or Mosly or both, because she’s already bought herself a house.” Mr. Skelton, being the principal of the Junior High, took some pride in the place and didn’t plan on cringing before his newly hired teacher no matter where she’d gone to school or grown up. “She’ll fit in in no time, you wait and see, Emily. Don’t bother yourself so.”
“I’m not bothered, Travis, I just want her to like Mosly. I think we should plan a little get-together to welcome her ...before classes start.”MoreLess
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