Does Everybody Get a Prize
Will everybody get a prize? The kindergarteners ask me.
I am substitute teaching in art class.
There is an art contest, and I am explaining it to them.
"Not everybody," I say. Thinking "not most bodies."
This concept is foreign to them.
"No fair!" One of them yells.
They all jump on the "no fair" bandwagon.
I wish now I had never mentioned this contest at all.
The art teacher could have done it next week.
"Maybe the prize will be a Lego!" an optimistic student suggests.
There is loud cheering.
They are back to thinking that everybody gets the prize.
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