"It is not unpleasant as doctor's appointments, ma'am, but it is more unpleasant than - any things not doctor's appointments."

"Oh. Well, I'm sorry to hear that."

"What didn't you like about it?"

"I did not - learn. I think - it makes sense that school is for learn, but to learn in school, has to have - all the childs knowing the same thing. If one child is not knowing any things, she will not learn. Because they will say, today we talk about how areney teniption works, and I do not know what areney teniption works, and I do not see the pictures - the pictures are not of a thing I has seen. I sayed to the teachers, none of those things I understood, and they sayed, that is okay, but I do not see why that is okay. If school is for learning, and I am not learning, I think no that is okay. 

It also goes so long. I have never sitted to learn so long before. Even when I learned Scripture, I did only an hour, two hour a day, after chores, I did not sit all day. I could sitted all day to learn Scripture, I think, because it is important. I do not see how areney teniption is important. Maybe it is! But no one sayed this, and it is not in Scripture and I think if it was important probably it would be in Scripture."

"Oh, I'm sorry, honey. I bet you'll learn more as your English gets better. Immersion's the best way to learn a language, even if it doesn't always feel like you're learning much in the moment. Did you not have PE class? The guidance counselor said you'd have PE class - I told her we were trying to get you more active -"

"We haved PE class. We sitted, and they talked about not eating bad things, and then we picked - who would play for red and who for blue - and then we played a game but it was a game where you sitted most of the game."

"...a game where you sat most of the game? What game is that?"

"One kid would go up and hit with foot a ball, and the other kids on they team would sit. Until it was they turn to hit with foot a ball, and then they would run, but if someone got the ball then they have to go back to sitting."

"Do you want to go out after dinner and play some catch, or some basketball? I bet you'll like PE more if you know the rules of all the games."

"I like knowing the rules but I think - there is not any bad things you solve by kickball, so it is not a good game. A good game, for children to get good at a thing they will need when they are grown. Like fight with swords, or ride cars, or ride small cars with legs or with two wheels. Has you ever needed to kick a ball to save your family?"

" - no. But I have also never needed to fight with swords to save my family. The point of sports is just to have some fun, make some friends, get stronger and healthier."

"All things are worthy that men doing for they own reasons, if they not Evil, but I do not think kickball have some fun, make some friends."

"Making friends in high school can be kind of tough."

"I is not trying making friends in high school."

"It might be a good idea to try making friends in high school."

"Why?"

"- look, how about we go to the park after dinner, toss a ball around, and if you don't wanna make any friends you don't have to, but if you do wanna, you'll have the advantage that you know the rules."

"- can we game fight with swords?"

"Sorry, kiddo, but you're stuck with me and I barely know which end of a sword to hold, it'll have to be baseball."

"- even babies knowing which end of a sword hold. One end cut you. No hold that one."

"It's a figure of speech. Are you in for baseball?"

"The school gived me....more school to be doing, bring back."

"- ah, fair enough. Well, if you get your homework done fast enough it won't be dark for another hour or so."

She is not optimistic about finishing the tasks on the stack of papers she's unable to read in a reasonable amount of time. She looks longingly out the window, and then pulls the stack of papers out.

"It says, what are the bases in DNA?"