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"Good God! What are you supposed to have done?"



"Everything. Nothing. It's one of those 'best interests' things. Am I taking the Spiritual-Values Directive
seriously enough? Am I thinking about patting any adolescent fannies? Exactly why am I in the lowest
quarter for my seniority group with respect to voluntary hours of refresher summer courses? Am I happy
here?"



Edel said, "These things always start somewhere. Who's out to get you?"



Fuqua took a deep breath and said in a surprisingly small voice, "Me, I suppose."



"Oh?"



Then it came out with a rush. "It was the semester psycho-metrics. I'd been up all night almost, righting
with Beth. She does not understand how to handle a fifteen-year-old boyтАФnever mind. I felt sardonic,
so I did something sardonic. And stupid. Don't ever get to feeling sardonic, Dave. I took the
psychometric and I checked their little boxes and I told the goddamned truth right down the line. I
checked them where I felt like checking them and not where a prudent biology teacher ought to check
them."



"You're dead," Mr. Edel said after a pause.



"I thought I could get a bunch of the teachers to say they lie their way through the psychometrics. Start a
real stink."



"I'd make a poor ditch digger, Roland, butтАФif you can get nine others, I'll speak up. No, make that six
others. I don't think they could ignore eight of us."



"You're a good man," Dr. Fuqua said. "I'll let you know. There's old McGivernтАФnear retirement. I want