Read the passage from Chapter 26 ehich begins "The idea was profound" and ends "Time for arithmetic, children" carefully before you choose your answer,

It can be inferred from the first paragraph that

(A) the teacher treated all the children in a condescending manner

(B) the school limited the reading chices of its students

(C) the town children resented the rural children

(D) the rural children felt inferior to the town children

(E) the school had a shortage of textbooks