Meg aggressively responds to Mr. Jenkins. Do you agree with her way of responding? State reasons for your answer providing evidence from the text.

Meg might have been gentler in her response, but she is just a girl, which makes it difficult for her to filter her thoughts. Mr. Jenkins is an adult, and he should know better than to respond to Meg with negative notions about her father.... she is worried, and he should be supportive.

Meg ignored this. She leaned over the desk toward the principal. “Mr. Jenkins, you’ve met my mother, haven’t you? You can’t accuse her of not facing facts, can you? She’s a scientist. She has doctors’ degrees in both biology and bacteriology. Her business is facts. When she tells me that my father isn’t coming home, I’ll believe it. As long as she says Father is coming home, then I’ll believe that.”