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Don't Care High
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Author: Gordon Korman
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her eyes for signs of life, but the angle was too great. I’m getting a kink in my neck.”
    â€œWhat can I say? She’s typical. She isn’t dead; she just doesn’t care. You’re going to have to adjust to the fact that the different one isn’t Daphne. It’s you.”
    â€œI’m starting to get the picture,” Paul sighed, sitting down on a window ledge. “You know, at my old school, they told us we were the citizens of tomorrow.”
    â€œThey’d never do that here,” said Sheldon. “It’d be too depressing. But as near as I can tell, people do learn things here. I don’t know how it happens, but it happens. There are bad grades and there are good grades, but Don’t Care students graduate.”
    â€œBut why is it like this? The ‘Don’t Care’ thing, I mean?”
    Sheldon shrugged. “It’s hard to say. It could be Manhattan, but there are perfectly normal schools not a mile away. It could be this one-hundred-forty-year-old building, but there are worse, I guess. Maybe it’s the legacy of Don Carey and his sewage. But look. Look behind you out the window. What do you see?”
    Paul swivelled and squinted through the unwashed glass. “Looks like a highway interchange.”
    â€œRight,” said Sheldon. “It’s the 22nd Street ramp for the Henry Hudson Parkway. It also happens to be Don’t Care High’s athletic field. Look, you can still see one of the goalposts in the centre of the cloverleaf. They had to cut off the left upright to make room for the right lane merge. And if you look real hard, you can see the fifty-yard line by the base of that parking garage.”
    â€œBut how did that happen?”
    â€œWell, the story goes that twelve years ago, when the city wanted somewhere around here to put their new ramp, it just so happened that the school board was looking for real estate to build a fancy new school uptown. So they gambled that, at Don’t Care High, no one would notice, let alone care. Don’t Care always concentrated on basketball rather than football anyway, since it’s a lot easier to find five players than twelve. So they traded our playing field for the uptown land. Anyway, a few years later they started a subway tunnel under there, but ran out of money, and eventually the ground caved in. So they paved it, all but that little patch around the fifty-yard line.”
    Paul’s face flamed red. “That’s ridiculous! What kind of city would do that?”
    â€œOh, the city would have backed down if there had been any kind of protest. But this is Don’t Care High —”
    â€œIt’s terrible, that’s what it is!” Paul interrupted hotly. “All this school needs is someone to take care of its interests, someone to represent it!”
    Sheldon looked mildly amused. “Why not you? Want to be student body president?”
    â€œAre you crazy? It’s my second day in the school. No one knows me.”
    â€œThat’s no problem. It’s not as though there’s going to be an election or anything like that. We just nominate you, and you win unopposed.”
    â€œAnd then what?”
    â€œOh, nothing, of course,” said Sheldon. “No one can do anything with this place.”
    â€œForget it,” said Paul. “I don’t want to be president just because nobody cares enough to run against me. Why don’t
you
run?”
    â€œNo way,” said Sheldon quickly, “I’m strictly a behind-the-scenes man. But I think you’re right. It
is
about time someone took over the reins of power around here.” His eyes scanned the near-deserted hallway and lit on a lone figure standing in front of a locker. “Him, for instance.”
    Paul stared in shock. There at the end of Sheldon’s gaze stood a bizarre character, motionless by his open locker. He was of medium height, slight and very dark,
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