Rise of the Pirate Classes: Free of Mental Manacles

Gerry sought to avoid visibility in the classroom and never volunteered answers even when he knew them. Jenny filled her homework with cartoonsand sketches, but rarely correct answers. Malcolm hated math but loved to leap over things and climb them. He was in danger of failing agrade. Peter did well in school but when he was teamed up with Gerry, Jenny and Malcolm for a school project, something clicked and heknew that he would rather work with them than anything. They wondered if there might be a better way to learn than in school but perhaps thatmay be a very dangerous question to ask with people like dour and traditional Vice Principal McDale around.Genius may not be teachable, but perhaps sometimes it can develop spontaneously in the most unlikely places, and when it does, it canbecome contagious -- but fear of such an epidemic may bring about seriously dire consequences.