Confrontation in Classroom: The Red Sweater Incident

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Rachel walked into that stuffy class early that morning just to talk with Mrs. Price about the red sweater incident that took place the day before. The motivational posters on the wall did not motivate her one bit into talking to Mrs. Price. As she arrived, Rachel saw Mrs. Price typing away on her computer not even acknowledging her as she walked in. “Mrs. Price I really need to tell you something.” Rachel mumbled shyly. Mrs. Price glared at her with a piercing look on her face. Soon after entering the classroom rachel’s hands started to get sweaty.
“Uh,” Mrs. Price remarked, “sure you can tell me anything” she said enthusiastically. Rachel could tell by the look on the teacher’s face that she knew why Rachel was coming in to talk. “About yesterday I just wanted to start by say-” Rachel started, but before she could even get to the most important point she was interrupted by Mrs. Price. Suddenly Mrs. Price responded with “I don’t have time for this, the teacher email that I am typing right now has to go out today, so if you could not bring up silly subjects that would be great.”
Rachel was so surprised by what just came out of that nasty, stupid Mrs. Price. The astonished student …show more content…

“You know what,” she hollered to Mrs. Price, “shyness is not going to hold back my true feelings about what happened yesterday!” “I demand a true apology right now because of all the embarrassment that you put me through yesterday, you were the one who ruined my birthday!” Meanwhile, when Rachel was yelling Mrs. Price was still typing, but once Rachel exclaimed about ruining her birthday Mrs. Price looked deep into Rachel’s eyes. The look on that teachers face was indescribable. Her face was filled with all different types of emotions, sadness, embarrassment, and sympathy.Before long, Mrs. Price stood up from her messy desk and walked toward

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