Miss Caroline's reason for asking Burris Ewell to leave
class was his having head lice (kids called them
"cooties").
Miss Caroline said desperately, "I was just
walking by when it crawled out of his hair...just crawled out of his
hair--"
Burris was not upset
by his infestation of lice and simply killed the creatures as they revealed themself.
However, Miss Caroline was concerned with the other children remaining free of
lice.
Despite the fact that Miss Caroline excused Burris
for the remainder of the day, she was not his real reason for leaving. He maintained
that he "was on the verge of leavin'--I done done my time for this year." According to
one of the oldest students, there were many Ewell children attending that school and
each of them attended only the first day of school each year. Between his expectation
of coming to school only that day and Miss Caroline's instruction to leave, Burris found
no obstacle preventing him from abandoning his first grade
education.
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