Alternative Math (2017)

Allyn Carrell: Mrs. Wells

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• [first lines] 

  Mrs. Wells : Oh, hi, Danny come on in.

  [Danny presents a failed exam] 

  Mrs. Wells : Looks like you're having some trouble with addition.

• [last lines] 

  Mrs. Wells : Wrong. It's twenty-two thousand!

• Mrs. Wells : We had a test. One of the questions was what is 2 + 2. Danny answered 22.

  Danny's Dad : And?

  Mrs. Wells : And that's not the right answer.

  Danny's Mom : Says who?

  Mrs. Wells : Says math.

  Danny's Dad : Are you calling my son stupid?

  Mrs. Wells : No, of course not!

  Danny's Dad : Who are you to say that your answer is right and that his is wrong?

  Danny's Mom : No no no no, she's right...

  Mrs. Wells : Thank you.

  Danny's Mom : ...right out of Nazi Germany.

• Principal : I understand you told Danny he had a wrong answer on his test.

  Mrs. Wells : He did have a wrong answer on his test.

  Principal : It's not our job to tell students when they're right and wrong.

  Mrs. Wells : That is exactly what our job is.

• Principal : If you took all the kids in this classroom and divided them by zero, that's exactly the amount of respect you're giving them.

  [Mrs. Wells smirks] 

  Principal : Something you'd like to say?

  Mrs. Wells : You can't divide a number by zero and get zero.

• Smug Pundit : So this teacher, this liberal elitist, tells this innocent little first-grade kid that his answer is wrong. Only her answer is acceptable.

  Angry Pundit : Yeah, from what I hear, she didn't keep these students for more than a year. After that, they all leave her and go to another teacher.

  Mrs. Wells : It's called graduating!