Passing Grade

Who is lying? A child comes home and reports that he has had sex with his teacher. At the same time a teacher reports to her principal that she has received a note from a student wherein the student threatens to tell the world that they (the student and the teacher) have had sex unless the teacher gives him a passing grade. If you set this conflict in a poor rural community where rumor is king and backyard gossip is the coin of the realm you have an explosive drama best compared to <I>To Kill a Mockingbird</I>. Add to this that the teacher is a first-year pretty young thing from out-of-state and the student is an underachiever from a well-known in-your-face local family and the stage is quite literally set for a polarized community cat fight.</p>Who would you believe?</P>