as small as a world and as large as alone

4:24am March 24, 2015

verlangenlotte:

You know what’s funny? Teachers who are proud of the fact no one passes their class. Why are they so smug that so many kids fail???? A classroom’s grades reflect on a teachers ability to teach??? You??? Suck at your job?????

My dad and his friend got called into a teacher’s office once and were both accuse of cheating.  The reason?  They had both gotten perfect scores on the test.  He said “Nobody gets As on my tests so at least one of you cheated and the other probably cheated off him.”

I don’t remember the outcome but I think he might have failed the test anyway even though he got perfect answers.  Or he was made to take it in front of the teacher and still aced it which made the teacher more angry.  Or any of a number of outcomes.  I just don’t remember.  And he’s dead, so unless a family member knows the story, I may never remember.  That’s the one thing that sucks the most, I’ve found, about someone you love being dead – you can’t have conversations with them.  Oh, I have conversations with him in my language – our language, I should say, for more and more I know I inherited it from him, not the other way round, he was just afraid to show it, and not without reason given what happened to me when I showed it – but that language doesn’t allow for this kind of question.  :-(

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