Aftermath: Parent Teacher Meetings (Creative Writing)

Member Name: markhobbs

Product:	Creative Writing
Date:	10/09/01 (77 review reads)
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A fourteen year old boy is sitting in his sitting room, watching TV and biting his nails. The sound of someone opening a door can be heard, the boy begins to sweat and twitch nervously. A woman in her mid forties enters.

Mum: Hi Mark, how are you?
Me: Fine, Fine…er, I’ve got to go now. I’ll be back for dinner.
Mum: You aren’t going anywhere, sit down. I need to talk to you.
Me: But-
Mum: No buts about it. I’m afraid you haven’t been completely honest with us, have you, young man?
Me: I don’t know what you’re talking about. Anyway, Dave and I are going to-
Mum: Sit! Now, your English teacher, Mr. Brown, said you’re quite the little troublemaker.
Me: Well, he would say that. He doesn’t like me.
Mum: And why is that?
Me: Because I’m too smart, I challenge him too often on intellectual matters. You wouldn’t understand.
Mum: But he says you never contribute in class. And you got a D in your last test.
Me: I don’t try in English.
Mum: But I thought you said you challenged him intellectually.
Me: I do.
Mum: How do you do that if you never contribute tot the class or do well in class?
Me: I told you you wouldn’t understand. It’s my…my, er, aura. Yes, it’s my aura.
Mum: You aura?
Me: Yes, my aura.
Mum: So, he knows you’re a threat because of this aura you have even though you don’t contribute to the class or do well in tests, is that what you’re saying?
Me: Yes. So you see now why he picks on me, and why I can’t contribute in class or do well in class because he would pick on me even more?
Mum: I think so. Eh, yeah, yeah I understand. But your Irish teacher said pretty much the same thing.
Me: I was expecting this. We disagree on the relevance of a dead language in a world that’s rapidly changing. We’re wasting time that could be used to learn ne
w things.
Mum: Like English.
Me: Look, I thought you understood. I know everything I’m supposed to know in English. I just can’t do well because-
Mum: -your English teacher would pick on you even more.
Me: Exactly.
Mum: What about French? You’ve been particularly troublesome there.
Me: I’m doing poorly out of protest. France’s animal cruelty levels are much higher than any other EU country. I’m making a stand. I though you’d be proud of me.
Mum: I am, I am. I think. And History?
Me: I resent being taught about vents that have already taken place. We should be preparing for the future.
Mum Business Studies?
Me: I am disgusted by the corrupt and immoral corporate world.
Mum: Civics?
Me: Corrupt politicians.
Mum: German?
Me: Horrific past.
Mum: Science?
Me: I’m in protest against the idea of cloning. And doctors who play God with simple peoples lives.
Mum: Classical Studies?
Me: Same as history
Mum: P.D.?
Me: I quite enjoy P.D. .
Mum: Oh. What about P.E ?
Me: Sport is the government’s way of turning would be revolutionary energy into pointless tasks.
Mum: And Maths/
Me: I just don’t like Maths.
Mum: Good point. I guess I owe you an apology then.
Me: It’s ok, you weren’t to know. I’d appreciate if you didn’t tell Dad of today’s events.
Mum: It’s the least I can do.
Me: Thanks. I’ve got to go now, I’ve a soccer game. See you later.
Mum: Bye.

She walks over to the kitchen cabinet and gets some aspirin and a sturdy glass of gin.

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