Double Quota

"I will, no doubt, be taken to task for for criticizing the work of children, but as any pathologist will agree, if there's a cancer, it's best to treat it as soon as possible.

If you happen to stand over 4 feet tall, the agony awaiting you at Sacred Heart Elementary began the moment you took your seat. These were mean little chairs, corralled into a "theater" haunted by the stench of industrial strength lasagna.

My question is not why they chosen to stage the production in a poorly disguised cafeteria, but why they chose to stage it at all."

David Sedaris on This American Life's A Very Sedaris Christmas