T.Puzzle swiped my phone from my grip. He clicked it open and scrolled through to his current grades. My attention remained on the road.
Traffic is no joke here.
“I got an ‘E’ in behavior. What does that mean?”
Full Speed and I shook our heads.
“Oh, man, T.Puzzle. If you think Dad was frustrated with me last night about geometry, wait until he hears this,” Full Speed said.
I chimed in. “Yep. ‘E’ is about the worst mark you can get for behavior.”
Honestly, neither of us had any idea what we were talking about. I had an inkling ‘E’ was a good thing. I figured no contact from his teachers meant he was staying on track. Still, being a new school with a different classification system, we couldn’t resist messing with T.Puzzle a little bit.
“Really?” T.Puzzle said.
His eyes scanned the screen for more information. “It says ‘E’ stands for exemplary. What does that mean?”
“Exemplary? Wow. This is really bad T.Puzzle. First it goes ‘O’ for outstanding, ‘S’ for satisfactory, ‘U’ for unsatisfactory and then waaaaay below that comes exemplary. Dad is going to lose his mind,” Full Speed said.
T.Puzzle kind of believed him and he kind of didn’t. However, he looked mighty relieved when I told him exemplary meant awesome.
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