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On the first day of Spirit Week, a cop arrests Parker. The cop doesn’t understand that as a farmer, Parker has a driver’s license despite being only 14. This makes Parker take longer to drop off Grams. When he finally gets to school, Parker sees a giant truck dropping off stuff for Spirit Week. Running inside, Parker sees that Mr. Kermit isn’t there yet, so he breathlessly tells the rest of room 117 that “the vuvuzelas are coming” (109).
Knowing how much Mr. Kermit hates the noisemakers, they brainstorm on ways to get rid of them. They decide to load all the vuvuzelas into Parker’s truck and dump them into the nearby river. To create a distraction while they sneak to the storage room where one of the custodians stands with the boxes of vuvuzelas, Elaine stomps on Barnstorm’s injured foot. The custodian takes Barnstorm to the nurse’s office while the rest of room 117 loads the vuvuzela boxes into Parker’s truck.
Mr. Kermit arrives at school to find his class missing. Principal Vargas comes on the intercom to announce that the entire shipment of
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