Chapter 14Taggart arrived at the small Italian place to a show. That was how he preferred to think of it, anyway: a show. The adage was something one of his high school teachers told him was the trick to teaching. If you treat all teaching like theatre, then everything and anything is part of the show. Fire drill? Neat change of scenery. A kid vomits in class? Interesting plot twist which adds more characters, like the janitor, to whom you can craft a clever back story to.
And so on. It was even better that Mr. Wilkins was a math teacher, and not a drama one, too, so hearing him wax philosophical about stage right and left, and lighting, rather than remainders and imaginary numbers was that much better. For a time, his wisdom had given Taggart the impression that it was possible to balanc
