Katie cancels the school rules.

Hello, this is Natasha, and I'm here with the latest story about Katie the witch.

Katie's form teacher, Miss Vile, has a motto.

It is this. The rules are the rules.

If anyone ever complains about a punishment by saying,

But, Miss, that's not fair. It's as if a dark cloud appears in Miss Fowle's head.

The ground trembles a little, and she repeats her favourite phrase,

The rules are the rules.

For instance, she said it when she gave Isabella detention for being five minutes late.

Isabelle explained that she had been helping a little boy to visit the sickbay because he had fallen over and cut his knee.

That may be so, Is, said Miss Vile.

But the rules are the rules.

Rishi had his phone switched on in class because his mother was in hospital, having a baby,

and his dad had promised to text him to say if he had a new brother or sister.

When the phone vibrated with a message, Miss Vile confiscated it.

The rules are the rules, said Miss Vile.

And Rishi did not find out the news until he got home. It was a baby girl,

by the way. Opinions were divided about Miss Vile. Some people said that she was a good teacher,

because she was strict and did not stand for any nonsense. Others thought that she was simply unfair.

Katie's opinion was sort of in the middle.

Until one day Miss Vile went too far,

she gave Isis a detention because her mother took her to a doctor's appointment

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