Flaws In Class

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I stared down at the exam, holding back the urge to crumple it up and throw it in the trash. It was the third marking period and I was holding yet another test that I failed. I furrowed my brows and sighed. There was a combination of frustration, defeat and indifference. I was sure that I was going to fail the class for the first semester and ultimately drop my grade point average. As the curriculum got more challenging, I was struggling to keep up and it seemed like no matter what steps I took, I could not get my grade above a 65. When I went to confide in my leadership teacher to express my concern, she just gave me a reassuring smile and told me that I could pass the class. I would have to be the one to take action by expressing my worries with my math teacher. That's all she had to say? How could she think that so late in the marking period, I was going to drastically change my grade? …show more content…

Because of policies, I wasn’t able to see anything that any teachers wrote except for one person. Mr. David, the Success Coach from Creative Connections, allowed me to see what he wrote and asked for my opinion. Not only did I find what he wrote astounding but it helped me perceive who I was in a different light. On this piece of paper the reader saw that I was “an outlier to statistics”, someone who sacrificed a temporary living place to travel to Japan to make a positive impact on others, someone who struggled with instability of food, clothing and shelter. Someone who “treated herself to a Hello Kitty organizer as a way to reorient her focus.” I was puzzled. How could I be characterized as this person and not seen it in myself? All of the instances when there was no food in the house or I failed a test, I bounced back with peanut butter toast or in this case, a higher

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