"Okay. I don't think she knows why I wouldn't run. She said everybody falls sometimes and you have to get up, and I do get up but that's not the point, but she didn't get it. I did go on the swings to make her leave me alone. The swings are okay."
"Are they still gonna read me stories out loud really slow when I'm all the way in second grade?"
"Yes, but not nearly as often. Mostly with her it's things like the teacher telling everyone to take some time to read one chapter of a book, and Lizbeth finishing two instead."
"Well, I'd guess they tell everyone to read the chapter because they want everyone to read the chapter, and they give everyone plenty of time to do it because most people don't read as fast as Lizbeth."
"But then she'll have read two and when they tell everybody 'read chapter two', she won't have anything to do."
"She reads chapters three and four. And when she gets to the end she starts over, or goes back to where everyone is supposed to be."
"That sounds dumb. Why don't they put the people who read fast in another class?"
"Because then the people who read fast would need another teacher, and they might not have enough to go around."
"Maybe Lizbeth should bring a book from home and read that instead of chapter two when this happens, and then she wouldn't be ahead or wasting time."
"Some teachers don't like it when she reads things in class other than the things she is supposed to be reading in class. Even when that makes no sense."
"Why do they not like it when not liking it doesn't make sense, then?"
"They might not know either. Sometimes people don't. And it wouldn't be polite. And their answer might not make enough sense to be worth it."
"Sometimes people just don't. They don't think about it in the first place, or don't keep track."
"That sounds scary! What if they just - wake up one day and don't know why they're where they are? That happened to me and it wasn't even something I did."
"Well, sometimes that happens to people who get drunk. But mostly people do manage to remember where they went to sleep last night and how they got there."