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Cole Peterson jiggled his keys in the lock, pushing them back and forth to convince the lock to open. He"d asked for the lock to be looked at, but like everything in a school, there wasn"t any money in the budget to replace it.
"I thought you said it still worked?" his boss Mr. Fletcher said when Cole had brought it up the week before.
"Well, yeah it works. It just takes some jiggling to get it to open, It"s probably going to break."
"Oh. That"s good then." The principal was looking at his computer monitor, and clicking with his mouse.
"Don"t you want to fix it before it breaks?"
Mr. Fletcher barked a laugh. "If we fixed everything in a school before it broke, we"d have no money for supplies Cole." He still hadn"t looked up.
After that Cole didn’t bring it up again, and ju
