Well, school is ending and I am in the deepest pile of crap I have ever been in. My Algebra class is a surefire failing grade for the year no matter if I made a 2 average or 102 average; it wouldn't help. English is a 65 and Reading is a 65 and if I fail two or more core classes, I will go to summer school which I can't afford (sort of literally) and would be (for real literally) embarassing and time-consuming (a month out of three months of summer).
English: No problem, really. Maybe a tutorial to make something up then do an extra-credit page to raise my grade up to at least a 70. My teacher is a really nice person for giving me a chance.
Reading: Huge problem. See, we have to get retarded "AR points;" (Accelerated Reader). We read books with different point amounts which differ with book length, etc. Then, you take a test over the book with silly questions like, "Did John run to the ____ A. John B. Uhh... C. Etc. D. Etc." I am in Pre-AP Reading so I must get 20 stupid AR points every six weeks. I have 15 right now and am reading a stupid book that my friend said was "really good" and reccomended. I can't concentrate on it and it's not doing me anything well. It is too long to read in 3 days unless I do nothing BUT read, and it is still introducing and not cuttin' to the chase when I'm on page 100-ish out of 200-250-ish.
The retarded thing about it is that my teacher hands out extra-credit pages to people who have all of their silly points. So, this means that I have missed 2 or 3 pages of extra credit that would DEFINITELY help me to passing because I have a close 15. She isn't fond of me and sometimes downright doesn't like me or something because I am not passing, but when I started trying to assess the situation at the beginning of the last six weeks, she wouldn't give me any friggin' extra-credit pages to do. What's wrong with this picture?
Past Averages:
6th Grade: NEVER went below and 86 or 89.
7th Grade: A low-high 70 every once in a while, but not enough to destroy me. I still did very well.
8th grade: GONE DOWN THE CRAPPER. Never passed Algebra, Reading (except once, I believe), or English (actually, passed it twice and the rest were high 60's). I couldn't BELIEVE how much I had gone down.
I'm as smart as a whip, but my frickin' dad-blasted laziness got to me this year BAD. I have prayed to pass without summer school in quiet time every day since the last first day of the 2nd semester (Texas requires the recital of the two pledges [U.S. and Texas] and 60 seconds of quiet time and thoughts & meditation). Well, actually, I prayed for passing regardless of summer school, etc., but NOW I see the troubles and annoyances of going to summer school, so I started praying for both. I think He heard the first one...
Please post any suggestions you may have (or comments, I suppose, but not stupid degrading ones to make me feel bad and give me a negative "Told ya so"-esque message, please).
"If you were mad at me, but really weren''''t, what would you say; no or no?" ~Cosmo, Fairly-Odd Parents
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Edited by - Trainman on 5/19/2004 8:23:15 PM