Suspension In College

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When I first read this discussion question I couldn't find myself remembering ever feeling like a dung beetle but looking back at my elementary school years, there was probably one moment where I felt like that. I went to an all-girls Catholic school. It was a really small place where everybody knew each other. One time during class one of my classmates decided to play a joke on the teacher by putting gum on the professor´s chair. Of course, the joke was not well taken by the teacher and she threatened us with a suspension to the whole class if we didn´t tell who did it. For me, this was a huge problem since I was paying for school with a scholarship and I couldn´t get any bad grades or suspension. I made full aware the teacher about my situation

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