He waits for her beside the house. She arrives several minutes later in a van with other children. She says she'd gone to get the boy at school, and to pick up another child. She told the boy's mother she'd pick him up, she says. The boy, however, insists his mom told him to take the bus.
Nobody is listening,'' Redice says in stern tones to the somber-looking children.
Soon, Redice halts story time because, she says, kids haven't obeyed her. Or she'll count to five. Her methods work. Thirteen children sit quietly and patiently, awaiting their chance to pick an apple. If they're good, those apples will be coated in caramel.