“Remedial kids aren’t ‘dumb’—just chronically goofy. Until frontal lobotomies become commonplace, educators dutifully remain S.O.L.”

The vice-principal of Jefferson Middle School, gives me a brief orientation before my first day substitute teaching 7th Grade Algebra. Also, a mnemonic for the members of O.J. Simpson’s criminal defense team (Robert Kardashian, Alan Dershowitz, Johnnie Cochran, Gerald Uelmen, F. Lee Bailey, Carl E. Douglas, Robert Shapiro).