The field trip was becoming a washout. The fifth-graders from Houston had prepared for months, but the tour guides in Washington, D.C., rushed them through the White House and the U.S. Supreme Court. Standing on the courthouse steps, they were reduced to hearing their teachers quiz them on Doric and Corinthian columns.
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