Remaining Civil In Civics
(I am in my Civics class. I am working on an essay to be presented in class, in pairs, and I am paired up with Classmate #1, who has just gotten back from suspension. I am also a student that takes Speech and Drama as a class.)
Classmate #1: “We should just copy it straight out of the book, and use the way it’s worded.”
Me: “No, what we need to do is flesh it out. Technically we could just BS it, but it will look better if we use a more elaborate way of wording it. I can stretch the first sentence and use it for the entire introductory paragraph. Your way won’t work, just because of the fact that Coach [Teacher] would fail both of us and you would miss out of a track meet, and we would both get detention.”
Classmate #1: “Coach [Teacher]!”
Teacher: “Yes, [Classmate #1]?”
Classmate #1: “I think [My Name] just called me stupid in a really smart way.”
Teacher: “That’s called a backhanded compliment. At least she didn’t do what she did to [Classmate #2] for screwing up their Power-Point.”
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