As Mrs. Thompson, an elementary teacher, stood in front of her 5th grade class on the first day of school, she told the children a 1 . Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she 2 them all the same.
But that was 3 , because there in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didn’t play well with the other children, his clothes were 4 and he constantly needed a bath. In addition, he could be 5 . It got to the point where Mrs. Thompson would actually take delight in marking his papers with a broad 6 pen, making bold X’s and then putting a big “F” at the top of his 7 .
