Britney Spears was in New York this week, and traveled all the way up to the Bronx to visit some schoolchildren and sign autographs. Because someone decided to name a music room in a middle school after Britney. Awww! But also, whoops for that school.

Unfortunately, Britney arrived upstate (the Bronx is upstate) on Tuesday, which meant it was Rosh Hashanah, which meant school were closed, which meant Britney was all like "question mark???"

So Britney's handlers thought fast and led Britney inside the empty school, only to have her reemerge several minutes later to find a group of kids from a neighboring playground or something properly bowled over by the popstress. But um, some of these "kid quotes" sound awfully manufactured:

"I can’t believe she’s here,” said one star-struck pupil, “I couldn’t say anything – it’s Britney. I was shell-shocked.”

Shell-shocked? Have you ever heard a ten year old use that term before? Either daddy's over in Iraq, or this kid's been watching too many late night episodes of M*A*S*H. Or you know, one of Britney's handlers gave the kid twenty bucks to deliver that quote to the press.