The thought of packing twenty-eight 6th grade kids into a bus and taking them on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Add the fact that they’re from Yancy Academy, the private boarding school for troubled kids in upstate New York, and you’re just asking for trouble. It was clear that the kids did not know how to behave the second they stepped off of that bus. There were some kids screaming. Others were running around. But there was this one red-headed kid who just liked to see what rules she could break. If it weren’t for Mrs. Dodds, Nancy Bobofit would get into so much trouble!
They were guided through big, echoey galleries, past marble statues, and glass cases full of really old black-and-orange pottery. Soon, it was everyone’s favorite part of the school day. Lunch! They headed outside, gathering on the front steps of the museum, where they could watch the foot traffic along Fifth Avenue. As most kids were calmly eating their packed lunches, Nancy and her friends were being mean to everyone. They would steal other people’s food, make fun of the other kids, and just be straight up rude.
Soon, enough was enough. The gods heard the cries of the others and knew they must do something. Apollo suggested to make her only talk in haikus. Demeter wanted to turn her into a corn stalk. Then, before you knew it. KABOOM! A flash of lightning flew down from the sky and disintegrated her from where she previously stood.
Tony Maurice (Nancy Bobofit), a Beloved Princess, has been struck down by the gods on Day 1.