Back when I was in 10th grade, my geometry teacher stopped me in the hallway after school. We’ll call her Marilyn.
Marilyn asked, “John, is there a reason you only do about 3/4 of your homework?”
Another math teacher, we’ll call him Doug, laughed out loud as he passed by. He was a popular teacher and his laugh was infectious.
Marilyn was looking at me with a look of incredulity. I looked her straight in the eye, while standing outside my locker, numbered 710, and said, “Yes. If I ace 3/4 of the homework I still pass geometry”.
She looked at me for a moment. She was what I considered at time to be a “scary teacher”. She usually taught seniors.
After looking me back in the eyes she simply said, “You’re right!”.
I passed geometry with an 80. I was content.
