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notes from my seventh grade report_card:
attendance for the year
Absent: 6 days (3 in october, 0.5 in november, 2.5 in June)
Late: 2 days (2 in November)
June 1993
teacher 1:
Mon has maintained a good average in Reading and Social Studies this term. She has a very creative nature and displays an excellent artistic talent. Mon sometimes finds it difficult to keep on a schedule with the daily assigned tasks. She should concentrate on improving her study habits and list the dates on which assignments are due. Mon is always interested in all class discussions and has given many valuable observations. I wish her every success in high school.
teacher 2:
Mon's achievment in Creative Writing, Mathematics and Science has been very inconsistent. Her progress is often hampered by incomplete or late assignments. Mon's inconsistent attendance often contributed to her difficulties in keeping up with assignments. I hope Mon will develop the resposibility necessary to improve her work habits. I was particularly impressed with the achievment in the last Mathematics unit where she scored 92%. I have enjoyed Mon's quick mind and original insights. I wish her all the best next year in high school.
music teacher:
Your contribtuion to music class has been very strong. Keep up the good work.
assigned to grade 8
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i think i cried on the way home with this one. it had some good parts, but the grades were the lowest i'd ever gotten. it was my second to last report card, as i left high school less than a year later.
well, teacher #1 liked me, and I liked her, but i think she was disappointed that i wasn't more like my older brother who had been her favourite student the year before.
teacher number two was a jerk, according to my classmates, my parents, and myself. he came in mid-year, replacing my favourite teacher (previous teacher #2).
we had conflict problems, which meant afterschool meetings in his office with my parents. basically, he thought i was a dummy and accused me of cheating on my math tests when I scored high. In order to avoid his suspicians that I was cheating, I would sometimes score low on purpose. one of the most important tests of the year i took after getting a bit drunk at lunch for the first time (not that he noticed anyway).
he never took into real consideration the fact that i had skipped the sixth grade ...and thus didn't know all the stuff my classmates had learned in grade six. plus, i was still readjusting to school life outside of the gifted programme (which was cancelled because of government cutbacks). he didn't even bother to read my whole file until i pointed out these two tidbits to him, and even then, he persisted in helping to make me feel stupid and lazy.
in retrospect, i don't think being sick for six days during the whole school year was such a crime.
at the end-of-school party he was instrumental in my receiving the 'best dumb blonde' award. i hope i forget him.
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Zantic
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You won't if you keep writing about him.
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notme
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oh well,
at least he wrote: "...I have enjoyed Mon's quick mind and original insights..."
i was surprised by that.
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yes well, thanks for the advice. i don't plan on writing or reading anything more on this blathe. i don't know why i wrote all of this really, i never do. i'm sleepless and was going through old papers, remembered all of that again, and felt like writing about it to let go of my thoughts.
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okay, so i lied. here i am writing again.
if i had a blather eraser i'd likely delete most of what i wrote above, as it really doesn't do anybody any good.
yes, i thought teacher 2 was a jerk back when i was twelve (jerk was one of my fave words back then) but do i still think that way? the answer is probably no. in fact, i love him in the sense that i love everybody. i know that i might not be who i am today if he had never been in my life. and when i said i hope i forget him, i probably really meant 'i hope i forget the negative feelings i had (and perhaps still have) towards him'. and it's not that i hope i forget in my memory, but rather that i hope i can transform those negative feelings towards him into positive ones, which is what i seem to be trying to do by writing about this whole experience.
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and yes i probably was a fair bit stupid and lazy when i was twelve
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http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/star001.html
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the first two are my arms
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those 'r big! Long sleeves for school, then? Or don't the kids care?
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