OUR VERSION OF THE ANIMAL SCHOOL
THE ANIMAL SCHOOL
Once upon a time, the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school.
They adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming, and flying.
To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects.
The duck was excellent at swimming. In fact, better than his instructor.
But only made passing grades in flying and was very poor in running.
Since it was slow in running, I had to stay in after school and also drop swimming in order to practice running.
This continued until its webbed feet were badly worn and the duck became only average in swimming - the average was acceptable at the school so nobody worried about that, except the duck.
The rabbit started at the top of the class in running but had a nervous breakdown because of so much extra work to do on swimming.
The squirrel was excellent at climbing until became frustrated with the flying class where his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of the treetop down. He also developed muscle spasms from overexertion and was then given a C in climbing and D for running.
The eagle was a problem child who was disciplined severely. In the climbing class, he beat all the others to the top of the tree but insisted on using his own way to get there.
At the end of the year, a largely unknown species of eel that could swim exceeding well and also run, climb, and glide was the dux of the school.
The mice community stayed out of school and refused all payments because the administration would not add building and construction to the curriculum.
The mice family entrusted their children to an owl and later joined with the other members of the E-team to set up a new and successful learning program.