Teenagers are more sarcastic. That all happens later.
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... on the other hand, of course, it may have been crying from sheer temper. Children sometimes do.
Part of the reason public schools are viewed as 'failing' in many places is that they are one of the very, very few public institutions that remain standing, and because of that, they are asked to stand in for and provide everything we've cut everywhere else.