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Quote: Rachel @ May 21 2008, 8:00 PM BST

I have NO clue. I range from thirds to firsts.

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Well I wish you the best of luck anyway, whatever happens .

Quote: Curt @ May 21 2008, 8:09 PM BST

I don't know if I ever shared this on the BSG or not but I once received a [color=red]-2%[/color] and big red letters saying "see me after class" in grade 11. We had to write a complaint letter to a business. My letter was to Monkey co. who I was writing to complain about their faulty monkeys. I wrote polite letter asking for a refund of my money and the removal of the 20 monkeys I had ordered from the company. I also asked them to please hurry and bring some rabies shots as I was forced to lock myself and my family in the attic to escape the terrible monkeys.

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Why did they give it such bad marks though? Was it coz of the business or coz it was just poorly written? If it was the monkey story, all I can say is what miserable feckers!

OK! So I actually found the letter stuffed in the very few things I kept from my high school days. I have scanned it and you can now find it here.
As you will notice I was wrong in saying it was -2 it was actually -3. Also in the teacher's defense I was an super slacker and the class clown so he had good reason to dislike me. I am sure he would be horrified today to know I'm going to teacher's college in the fall.
p.s. After the meeting I found out he gave me a zero for writing about the monkeys and gave me negatives because I didn't follow the books description on writing this letter.

Oh god, that's hilarious!

FOLLOW THE DAMN MODEL.

That is brilliant!!!!! Actually crying with laughter! hahaha

sigh, it's a bit like musicians who get formal training - they have the creativity sucked out of them. I hope the monkeys were taken out after all that or did you donate them to your teacher?

I don't think the teacher liked my family come to think of it. He tried to hold back my brother from graduating by saying he had plagiarized. It was the only time I can remember my mother standing up for us against a teacher. Usually she assumed we had done something wrong, but this time she had watched my brother write the essay herself. Her exact words (according to my brother) were:

"Did you even read this essay? It's terrible! It would have been a better essay if he would have plagiarized!"

I don't think he liked my family name. Including myself, my brother and all my first cousins there were 9 of us in the same school at the same time.

LOL.

Quote: Curt @ May 22 2008, 12:15 PM BST

I don't think he liked my family name. Including myself, my brother and all my first cousins there were 9 of us in the same school at the same time.

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If your family name was Killteacher then I could kinda see his point? Otherwise he was just a control freak me thinks!

Quote: Curt @ May 21 2008, 8:09 PM BST

I don't know if I ever shared this on the BSG or not but I once received a [color=red]-2%[/color] and big red letters saying "see me after class" in grade 11. We had to write a complaint letter to a business. My letter was to Monkey co. who I was writing to complain about their faulty monkeys. I wrote polite letter asking for a refund of my money and the removal of the 20 monkeys I had ordered from the company. I also asked them to please hurry and bring some rabies shots as I was forced to lock myself and my family in the attic to escape the terrible monkeys.

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Haha that's great!

Tomorrow is the day - 6 exams in succession

It's a little odd that half a year of learning is judged in just one day, makes it all seem a bit pointless really.

Oh dear! Good Luck! I haven't got any more until after half term now, thankfully. Still haven't finished the biology syllabus though! Which subject is it? And I agree how pointless it makes it all seem with exams-We learnt 16 poems by heart for Blake with analysis, and used 2!

Of course it's pointless! That's the whole point of school!

Ish.

Government and Politics and Philosophy tomorrow, I'm going to drop one of them so it's not all bad.

English is a little over the top, we learn everything to a ridiculous depth. I find it hard to imagine that authors write to such a level.

I'm sure you'll be fine.

I know! I can't believe that Fitzgerald really meant all theat in Gatsby.

Quote: PhQnix @ May 22 2008, 2:58 PM BST

Tomorrow is the day - 6 exams in succession

It's a little odd that half a year of learning is judged in just one day, makes it all seem a bit pointless really.

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Shiiiit, they really should put a limit on the amount of hours you have exams for in a day, that's mental.