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Schooled by Gordon Korman is about a hippie boy, named Cap, who transitions to a regular school from a hippie commune. Cap is clueless about everyday objects. He has never watched television, he had never tasted pizza, and he had never talked on a phone. Korman wrote a lot of deep and wise sayings. At one of the student government meeting considering the Halloween party, Cap does something out of the ordinary. Trent Davidoff suggested an awesome deejay to Cap, and then Cap assigns him the job of hiring him. Trent is bewildered and so is everyone else in the room. Cap announces, “A community thrives when each member does what he or she is best at.” This means that a leader could split up a giant project into smaller ones, and assign each one

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