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I looked for Matt but didn't see him. I did see Kendra walking up the sidewalk with her posse laughing at whatever incredibly hilarious thing she was saying. Not wanting her to see me, I hurried inside the building. Caleb would have been happy if he'd been behind me today. Stopping briefly at my locker, I threw my coat in and shut it when I spied Kendra coming around the corner. I would not let her ruin my day.
English went fine. More poets, only these were living, an unexpected change up. Got to second period Geometry and handed my homework to Ms. Bennett. As normal on a day before a test, Ms. Bennett graded our homework while we worked on a practice test by ourselves. With fifteen minutes left before the bell rang, she called me to her desk. It wasn't unusual for her to call people up there and go over their homework, answer questions, and have a one on one with us so we would be ready for our test. No one even batted an eye at me when I walked past. Well, Rodney did, but he could kiss my bottom. Wonder what payback he had in store for me for getting him in trouble the other day?
Ms. Bennett handed my homework to me and looked over the top of her black framed glasses. I took my paper and stared at the grade: 88.
Not too bad, but definitely not the hundred I had the day before.
"Care to explain?"
"It's better than my normal grades." And it was, but I could tell by the slow rise of her brow she expected more from me.
"Yes, it is, but with tutoring I expected at least an A."
"Matt's not a miracle worker, you know? He's doing his best." Okay, so he'd been totally preoccupied yesterday with Lori or Kendra or somebody, but he'd checked everything but the last problem. If I had everything right but that one, I should have at least made a 96.
Looking the paper over more, I saw a problem toward the middle that was completely wrong. I put the a variable in the c position. Stupid mistake, but not unusual for me. Unusual for Matt not to catch it though. Maybe he hadn't even checked my paper when I thought he had. He probably just pretended so he could get to Kendra quicker. I hoped Ms. Bennett didn't pay him to tutor. Not only the one problem, but I had little mistakes on three other problems that cost me a point each. Add that up, and I had an 88. Not bad, not good enough to keep me from failing.
She leaned closer like she didn't want the others to hear. Fine by me, because I didn't want them to hear either. "Brittany, you have to have at least an eighty or above on all three remaining tests this six-weeks and keep over an 85 average on your homework to pass. After that, you'll have to keep it up for the last two six-weeks and have a decent grade on your final to pass the class and not have to repeat."
Had it really been that bad? A few days ago, I would have jumped up and down and kissed a dog on the lips to have an 88 on homework. Now, Ms. Bennett expected more from me because of what, tutoring? Did she think that highly of Matt? I didn't want to fail, but what she had laid out made me wonder if maybe failing and going to summer school wasn't the best option for me. Clean slate.
"I'm not going to let you fail." She took the paper from me and laid it on her desk which came up to my elbow. The desk had a shiny black top and not an inch of clutter. "I'm going to talk to Matt and give you extra practice problems for the test tomorrow."
I must have groaned because she held her hand up to stop me. Funny how a little scrawny woman could make a person shut up just by raising her hand all authoritative. I'd have to learn that skill when I got older. "No complaining. I mean it, Brittany. I refuse to have you fail. I believe in you. You can do this. There's a mental block, but we'll break through it. It'll take hard work on your part, but I believe you can do it. Do you?"
I believed in the Easter Bunny and Santa, but I didn't believe in myself. No lie there. A confident woman would be a good goal to aspire to. Ms. Bennett
I looked for Matt but didn't see him. I did see Kendra walking up the sidewalk with her posse laughing at whatever incredibly hilarious thing she was saying. Not wanting her to see me, I hurried inside the building. Caleb would have been happy if he'd been behind me today. Stopping briefly at my locker, I threw my coat in and shut it when I spied Kendra coming around the corner. I would not let her ruin my day.
English went fine. More poets, only these were living, an unexpected change up. Got to second period Geometry and handed my homework to Ms. Bennett. As normal on a day before a test, Ms. Bennett graded our homework while we worked on a practice test by ourselves. With fifteen minutes left before the bell rang, she called me to her desk. It wasn't unusual for her to call people up there and go over their homework, answer questions, and have a one on one with us so we would be ready for our test. No one even batted an eye at me when I walked past. Well, Rodney did, but he could kiss my bottom. Wonder what payback he had in store for me for getting him in trouble the other day?
Ms. Bennett handed my homework to me and looked over the top of her black framed glasses. I took my paper and stared at the grade: 88.
Not too bad, but definitely not the hundred I had the day before.
"Care to explain?"
"It's better than my normal grades." And it was, but I could tell by the slow rise of her brow she expected more from me.
"Yes, it is, but with tutoring I expected at least an A."
"Matt's not a miracle worker, you know? He's doing his best." Okay, so he'd been totally preoccupied yesterday with Lori or Kendra or somebody, but he'd checked everything but the last problem. If I had everything right but that one, I should have at least made a 96.
Looking the paper over more, I saw a problem toward the middle that was completely wrong. I put the a variable in the c position. Stupid mistake, but not unusual for me. Unusual for Matt not to catch it though. Maybe he hadn't even checked my paper when I thought he had. He probably just pretended so he could get to Kendra quicker. I hoped Ms. Bennett didn't pay him to tutor. Not only the one problem, but I had little mistakes on three other problems that cost me a point each. Add that up, and I had an 88. Not bad, not good enough to keep me from failing.
She leaned closer like she didn't want the others to hear. Fine by me, because I didn't want them to hear either. "Brittany, you have to have at least an eighty or above on all three remaining tests this six-weeks and keep over an 85 average on your homework to pass. After that, you'll have to keep it up for the last two six-weeks and have a decent grade on your final to pass the class and not have to repeat."
Had it really been that bad? A few days ago, I would have jumped up and down and kissed a dog on the lips to have an 88 on homework. Now, Ms. Bennett expected more from me because of what, tutoring? Did she think that highly of Matt? I didn't want to fail, but what she had laid out made me wonder if maybe failing and going to summer school wasn't the best option for me. Clean slate.
"I'm not going to let you fail." She took the paper from me and laid it on her desk which came up to my elbow. The desk had a shiny black top and not an inch of clutter. "I'm going to talk to Matt and give you extra practice problems for the test tomorrow."
I must have groaned because she held her hand up to stop me. Funny how a little scrawny woman could make a person shut up just by raising her hand all authoritative. I'd have to learn that skill when I got older. "No complaining. I mean it, Brittany. I refuse to have you fail. I believe in you. You can do this. There's a mental block, but we'll break through it. It'll take hard work on your part, but I believe you can do it. Do you?"
I believed in the Easter Bunny and Santa, but I didn't believe in myself. No lie there. A confident woman would be a good goal to aspire to. Ms. Bennett
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