#Ms. KindaDecent

[schoolchaos]

Some kid was talking about Will Smith and how he slapped Chris Rock during the Oscar's (during ela class when we were supposed to be going over some basic ela stuff for the state test) and the teacher just asks a pretty good question,

"Will Chris Rock be helping you during the state test?"

And in my head I'm just like, "Can he? Is that an option? Cuz I wanna test this dude knowledge. We gonna play "Are You Smarter Than An Eighth Grader" and then every time he gets a question wrong, Ima yell, "ONE MORE USELESS THING SCHOOL TEACHES ME INSTEAD OF COMMAS!"

Then the teacher continues, like "No. He won't."

Big disappointment, but hey, maybe we can get Will Smith-

"Will Smith won't be there on the test."

Damn, of course this school cant afford Will Smith, we can barely afford decent food. I really wanted him to sing Friend Like Me. You're crushing all my hopes and dreams, Ms. KindaDecent.

[schoolchaos]

So, for ELA, we had to do a writing baseline thingy. Basically just write a lot so that the teacher, Ms. KindaDecent knows where we're at in writing. We had to write at least 3 paragraphs. Worst part? It had to be a 3 paragraphs long narrative about an important milestone in our lives that helped us grow and it doesn't go towards our grade.

To be clear, I'm not the only one who found this prompt... Difficult (cough cough, stupid, cough cough). The kid in front of me said "Ive never grown!" The kid behind me said "I don't have any milestones!" So the teacher decides to give them a helping hand by saying,

"Think of stuff like going to high school, graduating high school, getting married, blah blah."

And I'm just like, "okay, but can you give me examples that I may have actually experienced?" We're in the damn 8th grade we aint know shit about what those examples mean.

Anyway, we got two or three periods to work on it in school and one day at home.

And on the second school day, I muster up the courage to go talk to Ms. KindaDecent and tell her "I don't have 3 paragraphs worth of memorable milestones." Her response at first wasn't bad. She just asked me questions like "you like drawing, right? Have you ever had a problem or something blah blah?" And im like "not 3 paragraphs worth, no." She asked me another question i think, but I dont really remember it. When I basically said no to all her questions, she left to another student and left me with the words,

"I'm sure you'll think of something!"

I think that was supposed to be inspiring, but it really wasn't.

Anyway, I had to take it home and write 3 paragraphs about something I just could not and did not want to think about. I took the entire day thinking, I asked my brother, I asked my dad, I asked my friends, but all I got was nothing.

The baseline wasn't gonna be apart of my grade so I didn't really care.

Is what I tried to tell myself, but I had to do it, for some unexplainable reason, I would not just throw out this looseleaf paper and go to sleep.

So, it's about 1:00 am, and I tell myself "fuck it. Im gonna do it." What was it? No, it wasn't go to sleep, you idiot! It was "write about why this prompt is... Difficult *cough cough, stupid, cough cough* the day before it's due at 1 am."

Long story, short: I wrote 3 paragraphs about why the prompt sucked. I started at 1am and finished at 2am. I got a 3.5/4 and my friends said I did amazing.