<b>Shane:</b> Yes Father.

<b>Father Joe:</b> Van da A.C. is ready to go the board wants to replace the whole system with some fancy mess.

<b>Van:</b> I’ll see what I can fix Father and I’ll look into a cheaper replacement.

<b>Father Joe:</b> Finals are coming so we need to organize the showcase now we got alot more kids then last year’s finals.

<b>Shane:</b> Showcase?

<b>Van:</b> Yeah, we are still having the kids do the nontraditional semester finals, but now at the end of the year we do a big showcase have them show a long-term final.

<b>Alice:</b> Huh?

<b>Van:</b> The kids don’t take writen finals they have to show what they learned and how they improved, like in music or some of the kids organize their own scene from a play or there’s other stuff.

<b>Father Joe:</b> Yep some of my kids last year built a big ol’ shed in da back it real nice with fancy wood work and all.

<b>Alice:</b> How is that…

<b>Van:</b> That counted as shop and math finals…they had to learn to use all the tools, and build it themselves, figure out all the angles to cut wood and stuff.

<b>Alice:</b> Ahh…I don’t know which one I would have like better for high school.

Father Joe and Van shared a look.

<b>Father Joe:</b> Kids seem ta hate testin so.

<b>Shane:</b> Alice is a writer Father….so she’d much rather write an essay than..

<b>Alice:</b> Than swing a hammer.

Van laughed and shook his head when he saw Alice’s expression. Shane was taken back by his sudden display of emotions.

<b>Father Joe:</b> So Shane what ya kids doin?

<b>Shane:</b> Uhm I didn’t know there was a big showcase I thought we were just doing semester finals so I just gave them the assignment of reciting twenty linesI was gonna build them up to have to recite a monologue of their choosing. Bette’s doing most of my music classes so I don’t know how far they’re progressed…

<b>Dash:</b> Well, I was thinking some of us could do the whole play of Hamlet, instead of repeating the same scene over and over.

<b>Van:</b> That’ll take forever.

<b>Dash:</b> No like a fast paced hour version of the important stuff.

<b>Shane:</b> Hey the whole thing is important!