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Album: Gold Audio 07: On Thin Ice

Episode: 103

Lesson/Theme: Escaping responsibility.

Bible Verse: Acts 5:1-11

Characters: Lucy

Writer: Paul McCusker

Sound Designer: Dave Arnold

Original Air Date: February 10, 1990

Last Air Date: May 23, 2008

Description:
Curt and Oscar are running laps in gym class, and Curt is sick of it. So much so, he'll do anything to get out of it. When he and Oscar find out that Lucy is working on the Odyssey Owl school newspaper, which meets during gym class, Curt decides that he and Oscar will become ace reporters-despite the fact that neither one of them has any experience or writing talent. Mrs. Medloff, publisher and editor of the Owl, is skeptical of the boys' sincerity but agrees to give them a chance. Their first assignment? To interview their former P. E. teacher, Coach Stubbs. Stubbs just won an award for catching kids who try to get out of gym class. Curt and Oscar do the interview. But after they talk to the coach, they discover that their tape recorder wasn't working-it didn't tape anything Mr. Stubbs said. So they make up the interview. Unfortunately, Mrs. Medloff doesn't share their enthusiasm for fictional news stories. The boys quickly find themselves back out on the track running laps, having learned a valuable lesson about why it's wrong to lie to get out of work. Or at least, Oscar has learned a lesson. . . .

Questions:
Oscar went along with Kurt's idea even though it was wrong. Have you ever done that? What happened? Want is the best way to stand up for the right thing? Have you ever experienced peer pressure? Have you ever been the one to pressure someone else?