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Philip Malloy Speech
Philip Malloy is a track-obsessed ninth grader at Harrison High School in Harrison, New Hampshire. He has an English teacher, Margaret Narwin, and is doing very poorly in her class; he is given a D for his grade and is not allowed to try out for the track team. He does not tell this to his parents, and instead pretends that he no longer has an interest in trying out for the track team. Philip causes many distractions in Narwin 's class such as humming the national anthem. Eventually he is suspended from school by Dr. Joseph Palleni, the school 's vice principal.
Phillip then tells his parents that he was suspended for singing the National Anthem. Mr. Malloy (Phillip 's father) goes to tell Ted Griffin, who 's running for the school board.
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