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 In schooled, Cap's grandma falls out of a tree while picking fruit and has to go to the hospital. Now Cap has to live in the real world that Cap has no idea that it actually exists because he has lived on the farm his entire life.  **Most people think that** __**Schooled**__  **by Gordon Korman is about a kid that goes to middle school and learns about the real world that is different than what he is used to because he is like a hippy there with no rules whatsoever, but I think that it is about Cap who learns that life is not always easy going and people aren't always as they seem.**

 **First of all, people aren't always as they seem.** If you see one part of someone, you believe that they are like that all of the time. In 4 th  grade, I was known as a jerk. Now things are different and now I am the kid who wears hats and that means that I am always wearing a hat just about every day and I think that that is a good thing because it isn't a bad reputation. This relates to Cap, because he is known as cool and calm but sort of weird. He will change his ways by living in the condo and when he lives in the real world which is a big help to him and his life. As you can see, people aren't always as they seem.

 **Next, Life isn't going to be spelled out for you.**  Sometimes you have to buckle down and try your hardest. When Cap gets elected for student president, he thinks that life will be spelled out for him. When he goes and spends all of the school budget with the checks that were given to him, he thinks that all of the money will just appear in the checking account. The money doesn't appear at all in the book because he didn't how checks and other things work at all. One time I had a sleep over and I asked my friend if he can help me make my bed and he said “what do I do? I have never made my bed before because my mom does it for me,” and I thought that he should learn how to make a bed because when he his older he won't know how to. These examples show why life isn't going to be spelled out for you.

 **Finally,**  **I have small bullies in real life that I don't worry about like Cap dose because he doesn't know about him.** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">In real life I try and ignore my bullies and it gets easy to ignore it if you do it a lot and it will become natural to ignore bullies. In <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">__Schooled__ <span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> Cap has a bully that he doesn't even know about because he thinks that life is all dandelions and daffodils with his wonderful life on the farm with his grandma. He has a bully but he thinks that Zach is nice because he is in his happy little world. This proves my connection with Cap that I have bullies in real life.

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;"> As you can see, that is why I think that schooled is about how life isn't always easy going wherever you go in life. I really liked this book and you will too.