Junior High woes

(1958 February 11)

I know you are always interested in M's grades so I will enclose them. As in points A = 4 and B = 3, she tells me she thinks she is on the Honor Roll for the last 6 weeks but there has been nothing in the Oriole [school paper] or the [local] paper. I think it is so difficult to interpret these marks. The A in Singing was put on by mistake: the teacher is not supposed to give 7th graders a mark! Yet they go and they sing. She does not know why she got a C in Phy Ed except the teacher does not like the way she runs. She says there's a strut to it. Also some remark about having too much poise. Last week she was sent to the office from Math class, teacher furious because she had all her problems right but two. L had checked them over with her after she had done them alone. Miss S forbad her taking her book home again. Her gym shirt has been stolen. A bag was found in the hall containing one of her drum sticks broken to bits with a note, "Ha ha I did it again." She dropped her activity ticket at a game. It went under the bleachers and before she could get it, a boy tore it up. This goes on and on.