One time this led to my math teacher throwing my test into the dustbin – after giving me and several classmates a fair warning (which apparently worked for everyone except me) – luckily for me my straight-A-math-record could handle a little F and with the test gone there wasn’t anything to get signed by my parents either.
Another time my geography/PE-teacher taught me a lesson:
At the door of the gym before PE she asked me whether there was a possibility that I had failed to hand in my geography-test at the end of the previous class, cause it hadn’t been in her bag among the others. When I told her that I couldn’t deny that possibility (wouldn’t have been the first time*), she told me I would get an F.
When leaving the gym after PE she stopped me a second time, to ask me whether there was a chance that I simply had forgotten to put my name on my test. When I agreed to that possibility, she revealed that I actually got an A. I have no doubt that she deliberately had me worrying about that F for all of PE.
*once found a freshly written German exam in my bag when I came home from school. Totally panicked: at least 1/4 of the grade, which usually was in the B-C area. Turned it in the next day and my teacher actually believed me that it had been an accident and that I had left the exam unaltered.
Lena couldn’t remember L E N A.?
I used to forget to put my name on tests.
One time this led to my math teacher throwing my test into the dustbin – after giving me and several classmates a fair warning (which apparently worked for everyone except me) – luckily for me my straight-A-math-record could handle a little F and with the test gone there wasn’t anything to get signed by my parents either.
Another time my geography/PE-teacher taught me a lesson:
At the door of the gym before PE she asked me whether there was a possibility that I had failed to hand in my geography-test at the end of the previous class, cause it hadn’t been in her bag among the others. When I told her that I couldn’t deny that possibility (wouldn’t have been the first time*), she told me I would get an F.
When leaving the gym after PE she stopped me a second time, to ask me whether there was a chance that I simply had forgotten to put my name on my test. When I agreed to that possibility, she revealed that I actually got an A. I have no doubt that she deliberately had me worrying about that F for all of PE.
*once found a freshly written German exam in my bag when I came home from school. Totally panicked: at least 1/4 of the grade, which usually was in the B-C area. Turned it in the next day and my teacher actually believed me that it had been an accident and that I had left the exam unaltered.