The class numbers three, and, incidentally, the teacher is also the janitor. Add another Big Kick in the Cape and Islands' rump by the big Dig. You know your Cape and Islands if you can name the village in which Squeateague Harbor is located. It doesn't have that original feeling, that free-wheeling sort of feeling. Hostility and anger are a way to move things forward.
Confrontation is a means to an end, and it was the only way to proceed.