Hillbilly Elegy

the students for his brilliance and high
demands. In twenty years, he had never
missed a day of school. According to
Middletown High School legend, a
student called in a bomb threat during
one of Selby’s exams, hiding the
explosive device in a bag in his locker.
With the entire school evacuated outside,
Selby marched into the school, retrieved
the contents of the kid’s locker, marched
outside, and threw those contents into a
trash can. “I’ve had that kid in class;
he’s not smart enough to make a
functioning bomb,” Selby told the police
officers gathered at the school. “Now let
my students go back to class to finish
their exams.”