The Buckets by Greg Cravens for May 23, 2015

Agreed Toby.

When I took Freshman English III in college I had a terrable teacher (he actually taught English as a foreign language but the school asked him to cover a regular English class, but even his foreign language students thought he was a terrable teacher). My first writing assignment I go a D, so I went in and asked him if there was a way for me to bring the grade up. He gave me a shortstory to read and report on which I did. I liked the story and wrote the report, and before I turned it in I asked a friend to read it and tell me what she thought. After reading my report she wanted to read the story herself because my report made it sound so interesting. I turned in the paper and when I got it back I had another D, and when I asked the teacher why he said it was because I missed the whole point of the shortstory. But when we discussed the different points of the story he realized that while I had a different view of the story, my understanding was just as valid as his, but since he’d already given me a D for the report he wasn’t going to change it. That’s when I realized that in some classes it’s not how well you know the material, it’s how well you know the teacher and what they want to hear.

I repeated the class a year later with a different teacher and got one of the best grades in the class, the new teacher couldn’t understand why I got such a bad grade the first time I took the class.

You know… there is always …. you know… that place some kids go to that is between the end of school and the start of school. I hear some use it to bolster their grades or to take additional courses … so that come September they can get better courses….Its called Summer SchoolCome on, try it…. you’ll like it …. they have cookies….