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Narrator: When teachers complain "You're not working at your full potential!"
[[Explosion in background]]
Narrator: Don't take it too hard.
[[car casually spirals through the air while a crash is heard in the background]]
Narrator: They complain *way* more when you do.
[[A mechanized, 6-tentacled robot rampages around, picking up cars and creating a small warzone before the student inside while the lamentations of people and the building of military forces are in the background]]
{{Title text: The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead.}}
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