Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I'm 15, in tenth grade, and taking iGCSEs. The way it works in the US, I think, is you take the most important exam of your school career in twelfth grade, the last year of school, right? For us taking *international* (not sure about the UK) GCSEs, we do our single most important exam in year ten. I've known someone who applied to university at 16 with their year ten report card and would you believe it, they got in. It's a very difficult curriculum.

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Right, so term finals are coming up next week, and it just so happens to coincide with National Day, which is in all countries I think, a holiday.  I was thrilled because I'm sort of lagging in physics so it was a great chance to catch up, you know, because school takes away 8 potential hours of revision a day. The day before national day though, our physics teacher hands us our grades (they're shit) and says that because they're shit she'll have us do an extra mini-quiz as a sort of bonus question if we show up on ND.  She also said that even if just one student shows up, she'll do the exam. We all groan but there's no question about it, our grades are awful and we can't afford to not do this. I asked her if she was entirely sure and she got all upset what with me questioning the legitimacy of her offer and all that. Mind you, I have not slept more than 7 hours in the past month and was thankful for this holiday so I could catch up, if for a bit.

So we show up and she's fucking absent. She's not there. Fucking piece of shit pulled one over on us and didn't even show up. She made us wake up at 5 and half in the morning, having studied the night before, and wasted our holiday while she stayed at home. I was livid, somehow more so than the others, and when we had physics today (this ordeal happened yesterday), I brought it up before she even began teaching. I raised my hand and said how I *only* showed up yesterday to that quiz, and how I was planning on spending that time at home studying, and she got immediately defensive talking about how she was "terribly sick" and talking a great deal of shite about how we she placed her health before anyone else and before our education, and how this was "non of our business". I told her that she had made it our business by having us show up to school on what would have been a holiday and she said we "had no right" "interrogating" her over what is "her legal right". Clearly, she was thinking of this legally while I was thinking of it ethically. It doesn't quite sit well with me, telling kids to give up their holiday and then standing them up like that, it really doesn't. By the way, "sick" my ASS. My absolute ass. Is it a coincidence that she "got sick" the only day that nobody could penalize her for it?

But somehow I found myself wondering if I was being a bit of asshole myself, you know? What do you think?