Instead of reporting the messages, the girls asked their teachers if they could leave their last lesson of the morning a few minutes early, giving them time to reach the assembly hall before the boys arrived. Fanning out, they sat in every other seat throughout the auditorium. When the boys arrived, they were stymied. Each of them stuck sitting between two girls and so stripped of the bravado of a disruptive bloc, they were forced to actually listen to the conversation the girls wanted to have.
