[Good. He isn't about to lie to children, even particularly innocent seeming ones, when the lie will likely be exposed. So he just says - ]
I don't know. [. . .] But you don't have to participate if you don't want to. You are young, and there are better things you can be doing. If something like what happened on Sunday happens again, you do not need to watch. If something like that trial happens again, you can don't need to be responsible for voting for somebody. You can ask someone - me, or Miss Eisner, or Beauregard, or someone else - what you ought to write for a vote if you wish. There's no shame in any of that.
[ but she doesn't sound convinced, and she does not intend on choosing otherwise! Because she doesn't wanna ditch all her friends to deal with this hard stuff! ]
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i saw that
. . . Probably, yes. They seem to intend to treat this like an ordinary school experience.
i am no thoughts head empty, except for dumb batman references
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Do you know the phrase 'go along to get along'?
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They want us to go to school and pretend there wasn't a murder. We may need to go along.
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[But there's a kitty cat who seems to want to be picked up and sit in her lap, so that's nice?]
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At least it won't happen again...right?
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I don't know. [. . .] But you don't have to participate if you don't want to. You are young, and there are better things you can be doing. If something like what happened on Sunday happens again, you do not need to watch. If something like that trial happens again, you can don't need to be responsible for voting for somebody. You can ask someone - me, or Miss Eisner, or Beauregard, or someone else - what you ought to write for a vote if you wish. There's no shame in any of that.
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[ but she doesn't sound convinced, and she does not intend on choosing otherwise! Because she doesn't wanna ditch all her friends to deal with this hard stuff! ]