Lower Learning Page #6

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I don't think it's gonna do

any good.

(grunts)

Man:
It just took me a while

to come to terms with it, you know?

Maybe she was a guy,

maybe she was a girl,

but at the end of the day

why am I gonna get so upset

about a blowj*b?

Hey, everybody.

Hey, you guys, if I can

get your attention just for a...

hi!

I... I have some bad news

to share with everyone.

The district

might shut us down today.

Okay, maybe you guys

didn't hear me.

Geraldine Ferraro might shut down,

and permanently this time,

not like that incident with Diarrhea Teddy

and the hazmat team.

That was great.

Now look, I don't want to have to

assert myself...

Assert yourself?

With what authority?

Haven't you figured it out, Tom?

You're a figurehead, a veep.

You're Spiro f***ing Agnew.

All hat and no cattle, Tommy.

Okay, I'm just trying to help.

Well, we don't need your help.

What do you think will happen

to the school if it's shuttered, huh?

You think we'll lose our jobs?

Well, I got tenure, b*tch.

We all have,

except for two people...

this guy

and you, Tom.

Keep your nose in the roses

and out of the smelly stuff.

You're the smelly stuff?

Yeah, I'm the smelliest stuff

there is, Tom,

the smelliest stuff

this side of Dixie.

Guess what side of Dixie

we're on.

(hisses)

So that was useless.

Are you just gonna stop there?

What would your father say?

That's a low blow.

Maybe it wasn't low enough.

What would your dead father say?

Jesus, Rebecca.

"Jesus, Rebecca" yourself.

Get angry, Tom.

What does it take

to rile you up anymore?

What happened to you that day?

I don't want to talk about it.

(door opens)

Hey.

Thanks for the grapefruit.

It was the best ever.

Oh, you're welcome, Adelle.

I like you.

And you smell good.

Daddy smells like bourbon.

Well, I'm sure that doesn't change

how much he loves you.

Nuh-uh. He wrote a song called

"Social Worker, Social Worker,

Come Take Adelle Away."

You're not like him.

You're super-duper nice.

Well, I think you're nice too, Adelle.

Whoa whoa whoa.

But we still can't hug.

Sorry.

We get lawsuits. We get law...

she knows we get lawsuits.

You set that up, didn't you?

No, Tom, songs like that

are sung every night.

Okay, all right.

If this school's going down,

I'm going down with it.

I've got nothing to lose.

But on one condition...

you're in this with me.

Tom, I'm here to inspect you,

not save your ass.

I could lose my job.

I will... I will lose my job.

That's exactly why no one else

is helping me.

I can't do this alone.

I need you.

F*** a duck.

- I'm in.

- Yeah!

Okay. Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

A plan... we need a plan.

Right.

Well, we've got about five hours

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