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Project Gutenberg's There Will Be School Tomorrow, by V. E. Thiessen This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: There Will Be School Tomorrow Author: V. E. Thiessen Release Date: July 5, 2009 [EBook #29317] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THERE WILL BE SCHOOL TOMORROW *** Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _You will possibly shudder, but you will certainly remember for a long time, this story of what happens when Tomorrow's gently implacable teachers are faced with a problem for which there seems to be only one solution...._ there will be school tomorrow _by ... V. E. Thiessen_ There is a quiet horror to this story from Tomorrow.... Evening had begun to fall. In the cities the clamor softened along the streets, and the women made small, comfortable, rattling noises in the kitchens. Out in the country the cicadas started their singing, and the cool smell began to rise out of the earth. But everywhere, in the cities and in the country, the children were late from school. There were a few calls, but the robotic telephone devices at the schools gave back the standard answer: "The schools are closed for the day. If you will leave a message it will be recorded for tomorrow." The telephones between houses began to ring. "Is Johnny home from school yet?" "No. Is Jane?" "Not yet. I wonder what can be keeping them?" "Something new, I guess. Oh, well, the roboteachers know best. They will be home soon." "Yes, of course. It's foolish to worry." The children did not come. After a time a few cars were driven to the schools. They were met by the robots. The worried parents were escorted inside. But the children did not come home. And then, just as alarm was beginning to stir all over the land, the robots came walking, all of the robots from the grade schools, and the high schools, and the colleges. All of the school system walking, with the roboteachers saying, "Let us go into the house where you can sit down." All over the streets of the cities and the walks in the country
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