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“Fleetingly?”
“Runner,” Principal Malcolm said. “Went running every day on lunch, rain or shine. From the high school to the fence on the other side of the canyon and back.”
Luis’s felt a thrill. If he was on to some-thing here, then nothing he saw inside the school was a coincidence. He dug deeper.
“Impressive staff you’ve got here, by the way, Dennis,” Luis said, “Growing up on Earth, I don’t remember teachers or admin-istrators being so—cerebral.”
“I appreciate the compliment, Luis,” Principal Malcolm said. “Not to disparage the educational institutions of our Mother Planet, but overcrowding and the social pa-thologies born from it has led to what one might politely call variable outcomes there, both in teacher quality and student experi-ence. Here, at Farmer
