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...religious conservatives have monopolized many school agendas with challenges that say more about the parents' political and religious beliefs than their children's education. Should students be molded into "global citizens" ? (Unpatriotic!) Should Halloween displays in classrooms feature witches? (Paganism!) Should kids be instructed to take a deep breath before tackling an exam? (New Age religion!) Should classes hold mock elections? (Usurpation of parental authority...
Over in the cereal aisle two students toss each other bottles of gatorade. In the doorway, a balding man scratches at his lotto ticket, breath held in suspended anticipation. Robert places a black, plastic bucket upside down in front of one of the registers. It reads, "CLOSED," scrawled in black and orange ink across its belly (Halloween colors). The lines have disappered: the store grows suddenly quiet. Robert and Bonnie relax. Their shift only half-over, they wait casually for the next rush...
...Seth," he said, "something's wrong...you're different from the other people I know. Sometimes that worries me." He sighed heavily and got up to make the trek back into his cave, muttering under his breath. "Oh lord, oh lord, my heavy heavy load...
...always talking about things outside of football, too. Like today, I came into practice and we started talking about the NLCS [here he mutters something under his breath about the Braves' inability to win the big ones]. A lot of people seem to think that he's almost a god, some kind of untouchable, but he's really a down-to-earth kind...
...that it makes people startle a little bit and think that maybe not everything is just what meets the eye. I think people should be shaken up a bit when they walk through life. They should stop for a moment and really look at ordinary things and catch their breath...