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Post-56: Contest of Contempt

5/17/2013

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The essay assignment was to write about "your study plans for high school".

A 9th-grade boy in E1 class (the same boy, incidentally, as was mentioned in post-21, who volunteered to go scold another class) wrote an essay which included the following:

            I want to go to the good high school. It's because I want to success my life. So I should go to the
            good high school. If I want to go to the high school. I should get a good grade for every tests. So
            I should study very hard. And I should take part in english contempt contests and math contempt
            contests and other subjects contempt contests. Then I should get many certificate of awards.

I imagine a stage surrounded by a large, hooting audience and a panel of distinguished judges. One contestant at a time goes on stage, and is given a minute or two to display their contempt for English.

Possible judge banter: "Yeah, that one seems quite annoyed; he clearly dislikes English a fair bit -- 60 points." / "Goodness! That girl's arm-waving and shouting shows the sincerity of her contempt. Don't you think? -- 85 points." / "Oh my. Burning an effigy of Shakespeare on stage and using the pages of an unabridged Oxford dictionary as kindling, all while shouting damnations upon Geoffrey Chaucer -- That kid really...hates English. 95 points!"



[ I cannot guess what the student actually wanted to say. I highly doubt it was "contempt"]
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Errin
10/27/2013 12:42:33 pm

I'd forgotten how funny you could be.

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