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If anger could kill, everyone in this rooraduate?” I cannot be hearing him correctly

“I’m sorry, Miss Drake, but you’re short”

“I’m not short,” I snap “You just showed me my transcript and I have seven credits raduation”

“And I just explained to you,” Mr Bowman says with forced patience “You took your last er traces the line over to the class narade”

“So?”

“So here at Anaheih School we require you to take one ain “And you did You took AP Algebra And then you needed to take another math credit as an upperclassman You took both your math credits as a lowerclassman”

“But I took them both That’s the important part here I took both”

“I’ I can do”

“Well, that’s fucking stupid” I blurt it out without thinking and I wait for Mr Bowry and write e of his nose and sighs

Thismy math credits completed early”

“Well, they ht make an exception, except that you spent the first half of your junior year in this…” He looks down at ain “Alternative school”

“I was taking graphic web design It wasn’t some loser school”

“You didn’t take math”

“I was done with math!”

“You didn’t take science either That’s another problem”

“I took AP Biology”

“In tenth grade Not eleventh”

“What the fuck is wrong with you people?”

Another guidance counselor looks over at me and scowls Boy, these Anaheim people must be used to the f-word Back in Ohio, I’d be expelled if I talked to a counselor like this But back in Ohio I was ahead in credits too

“So you need to make up PE”

“I knew that part You toldthat my knee was injured last year and it’s still very painful, so I have to sit PE out”

“You need to make up driver’s ed”

He ignores my note excuse I don’t really mind driver’s ed I don’t have my license yet and it’s already on my schedule, just like PE

“You need to make up one semester of science and you can take the other one this semester And you need to make up one full year ofWe don’t even have roo classes were cancelled since no one passed the first semester”