Tomorrow. · 5:19am Jan 17th, 2023
Have you ever had that moment. That moment where you're waiting for everything to come together and everything to be okay and it just doesn't happen? Well I had one of those a couple days ago. And it resulted in me failing English of no fault of my own.
Sure sure "you can't blame the teacher for you failing to turn in work/failing to grasp the subject material". And I'd agree with you there. Unfortunately, this is not the case. See I *did* grasp the subject material and I *did* turn in the work, all of it in fact. But you see, dear friend, I was also sleeping that night having faith in anyone to do something right, but of course, I was let down for a fifth time.
Because I *wasn't* sleeping that night, I was completing an essay that may or may not have been two months late. Which, yeah, sounds bad, but that little detail is integral to my misplaced faith.
My logic being, if I could turn in this essay, Two months late, and have it be graded, then surely, surely my journal, which was a mere 24 hours late, which was a make or break grade for the class, which was worth 80 points, which was sitting there on her desk with my name written on it in sharpie. Surely you'd think that would also be graded, even with a small deduction.
NOPE.
I even emailed her about it. And this isn't a teacher who doesn't accept late work. I would have been soo fine with the typical deduction. But no.
Now there is a zero out of fucking 80 in my grade book meaning that I have failed English for the semester and would have to retake it in summer school. And since English is a required 4 year course there's no getting out of it like I could with some other subjects. And this would also mean I'm not allowed to audition for the spring musical.
No.
Fucking.
Way.
And since semester grades can't be challenged or changed as easily as quarter grades, I'm going to have a hell of an uphill battle to fight. But I am so perfectly fine with that. Because I am getting my motherfucking 70 if it kills me.
And so help me God if my parents try to say that I'm somehow in the wrong here. Their deafness to my needs is beginning to border on ableism and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle that.
That's all for now, I'll let you know how everything turned out. Vibes.
Can you get a meeting with the Head of the school.?
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I'm sincerely hoping that the counselors can get this sorted out, but seeing as it has taken over 5 months and counting for school faculty to replace my computer charger I'm not getting my hopes up too high. I'm really hoping it doesn't come to that though, especially since I might be fighting with no allies.
I hope it goes well for you.
Good luck, Twilight. Sending you positive thoughts and energy.