The Missouri State Board of Education voted to revoke the accreditation of Normandy School District, and according to state law, the district was required to offer students the option to transfer to an accredited school. Thus began the apocalypse. Normandy elected …show more content…
Although there were no violent confrontations an undertone of hostility pervaded the atmosphere of the school. At first, every student was struck by a selective blindness which prevented them from seeing anyone who they hadn’t known from the previous school year. However, others, hearing their parents complain about what was happening, snapped under the strain and opposed each other with unfettered rancor. Everyone else chose to remain in self-imposed segregation. Noticing this, teachers began to force intermingling by assigning group projects and choosing the groups. The students finally realized that they all shared one commonality: a desire for a stellar