I was going to ask Miss Daisy what a hazmat suit was, but Little Miss Know-It-All had already looked it up on her smartphone.

“‘Hazmat’ is short for ‘hazardous material,’” said Andrea. “It says here that hazmat suits protect people from chemicals, gases, viruses, and other dangerous airborne particles.”

“I don’t want to catch any germs,” Miss Daisy told us.

“But most germs are good germs,” Michael explained. “That’s what Mrs. Cooney told us.”

“I don’t care,” Miss Daisy said. “If I’m wearing a hazmat suit, I won’t get Jackie Macky sick when I get home from school today.”

Sheesh, and I thought my mother was overprotective.

We put our lunch boxes into our cubbies and sat in our seats.

“Where do you think Miss Daisy got a hazmat suit?” Michael whispered to me.

“From Rent-A-Hazmat Suit,” I explained. “You can rent anything.”

Miss Daisy stood up and shuffled over to the front of the room. It looked like it was hard to walk in the hazmat suit.

“Okay, it’s time we did some learning around here,” she said. “What do you want to learn?”

“I want to learn about ancient Egypt,” said Andrea.

“Well, I don’t know anything about that,” replied Miss Daisy.

“I want to learn about the presidents,” said Emily.

“Well, I don’t know anything about that either,” replied Miss Daisy.

“I want to learn about weather,” said Alexia.

“Now that’s something I know about!” said Miss Daisy excitedly.

I couldn’t believe it. For the first time in the history of the world, Miss Daisy was actually going to teach us something. She shuffled over to the window.

“If you look outside, you’ll see weather,” she told us. “It’s a sunny day today. It’s not raining. It’s a little chilly. And that’s all you need to know about weather.”

What?!

That’s it? That’s all she was going to teach us about weather?

“I was watching the Weather Channel once,” said Ryan. “They said that clouds are tiny drops of water or ice crystals. They’re so light that they float in the air.”

“Is that so?” said Miss Daisy. “I had no idea.”

“Aren’t there different kinds of clouds?” asked Neil. “My dad told me that.”

“A cloud is a cloud,” said Miss Daisy. “That’s all I know about clouds. You see one cloud, you’ve seen ’em all.”

Little Miss Perfect, of course, was all over her smartphone.

“It says here there are four main types of clouds,” said Andrea. “Cirrus, nimbus, stratus, and cumulus.”

“Cumulus clouds are those puffy ones that look like cotton balls,” said Alexia.

“I knew that,” said Emily.

“Me too,” said Neil.

“Wow, I didn’t know any of that,” said Miss Daisy. “You kids are so smart! You’ve taught me a lot today. I’m so glad I decided to go into the field of education.”