Be My Be My Be My Little AB Scene 118

Kim remembered that he had liked school well enough during kindergarten and first grade, when his family lived in suburban Chicago. Easily intimidated by authority figures, Kim had been sufficiently well behaved to be liked by his teachers, but he had been wild enough to get along with the other kids. Then, about halfway through the second grade, another monumentally humiliating incident had permanently changed him, as it had the attitudes of his teachers and schoolmates alike. Kim’s regular teacher, Mrs. Bartlett, a matronly type who thought of Kim as a prize student, was absent one afternoon.