Little School

Students: El Chileno, Pedro Infante, Luky Veloz, Pulposa, Gato Malevo, Tadeo, El Loco Listo, La Nombrada.

—Please, children, form a line and behave, the Inspector is here and we have to set an example. Let's see: El Chileno with La Nombrada; Pedro Infante with la Pulposa; Luky Veloz with Gato Malevo; Loco Listo with Tadeo.

Very good, go into the classroom and sit down quietly.

Who wants to tell us something? Good, Gato Malevo, what do you want to tell us?

G. M.: Miss, my dad says what's the point of them teaching us the multiplication tables, if computers or calculators do it all.

M.: Who can answer your classmate? Let's see, La Nombrada.

L. N.: You have to know the tables because calculators break down, and what do you do then? It's also good for exercising your memory.

M.: What's wrong, Tadeo, don't you agree?

T.: Miss, I don't like numbers, I prefer writing, reading, but the tables no...

Miss: I think you have to mix everything together, like in a salad.

T.: Always thinking about food.

M.: Very good, Pedro Infante, what about music, who likes it?

—Me, Miss, I play the drum and I'm not like Tadeo, who spends the whole day reading.

T.: Look, Loco Listo, I read and I don't bother anyone, and you with your drum wake up the whole world and leave us deaf.

M.: That's enough, children, take out a sheet of paper and write, the topic is what each of you thinks about what we talked about in class, that way we'll know how each one thinks and tomorrow we'll talk about it again. Everyone go out to recess when you finish writing.