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He assigned classroom resources at the start of the year by giving us each a fixed budget of imaginary money and holding a single-round silent auction. Each of us could write down a bid on anything in the room, and the winner would get to charge the other students imaginary class money to use it. No pay, no use! Anything in the classroom. Things like chairs or the pencil sharpener, he said.

I wrote down “air.”

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