GagDragon

i walked past, tilted my head at the comment “if ida known my high school gpa was so important to get into college, i woulda stayed in the regular classes and aced em vs. taking the accelerated classes and getting low Bs.” to which the band director stated: “yeah, in public schools theyre scored differently, but we dont have that in place so yeah, its more work for a smaller grade.” or something to that effect.

i walked into my accelerated physics class and after struggling through another class of an impossible set of notes i made a plan for my next period in accelerated english. our teacher, all i remember is her turkey gobble wiggling below her chin, was telling us how the next semester would shape our high school grades and that we needed to really focus and get all of these papers and essays in to get the grades we all knew we could earn. i raised my hand and asked “what is the regular english class doing differently than us?”

the whole class looked at me and then stared at the teacher waiting for an answer. i guess she wasnt expecting such a frank question and kind of stuttered and sheepishly said “well, on your syllabus they’re hoping to complete modules 1 and 2″

the syllabus was two fucking pages for this class with like 5 modules. “you mean they do less than half of what we do and earn grades just the same?”

silence.

i was told to go speak to the dean, which i did after i detoured to the guidance counselor’s office and switched all of my schedule to regular classes. my junior year i got a 3.2 and i was streeeeessssssssssed. my senior year i got a 4.0 and with my free time learned how to skip school, distribute drugs on a city wide scale and recorded two albums with two different bands.