"It's better here than it was back home, for me," Beverly says, which she knows isn't really an answer, but it's still the truth. With the shit she had to put up with back in Derry, there probably wasn't any chance of her ever liking school. Besides, she largely finds it pointless, but she wouldn't really know how to explain it if she tried. "It's mostly just boring. And you have to learn a bunch of things you'll never need to know outside of class."