Sabrina: Wait a second, how can being sentenced to teaching high school be sufficient punishment?

Zelda: Because it’s the worst thing Mr. Rothwell can imagine.

Sabrina: But now kids are going to be stuck with him, year after year!

Zelda: Well, whether he means to or not, he teaches a valuable lesson.

Sabrina: Some people are just jerks?

Hilda: Yes, but if you study hard and you don’t let him get to you, you will pass algebra and then you can forget it. But he’s trapped in math forever.”

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