"I'd like to use chance."

Chance and fairness go hand in hand. When hands shoot into the air, classmates avoid calling on the same people, or hurting someone's feelings when they say, "I'd like to use chance."

Like ancient oracle bones (sans turtle shell), a student pushes a hand into the cup, mixes a mass of sticks, then reads a single lucky (or unlucky) name. When the odds are one in twenty-three, each day brings curious mysteries when kids pull their own names, or the same name twice.