The media vans descended on the school just as the students arrived. Predictably Mr. Hand stormed out the doors to shoo them away. The students were to be brainwashed only by the school teachers. He didn't want any competition from the media.

He walked right into their microphones. I sat on the hood of John Wayne's car and watched it all happen.

"Mr. Hand, you're the principal of Punkie's Hounds High?" a young looking blond woman asked.

"Yes," Mr. Hand said, "and we ...