Chapter 68
Gary looked at Nicole coldly as his eyes burned with disgust and confusion. If one looked closely, one could see a hint of disappointment in Gary’s eyes as well. Nicole did not bother about the way everyone looked at her. She just rested her chin on her hand lazily as she played with her pen.
The class started, and Ms. Emerson walked in with a sour expression. She did not look at Nicole throughout the entire class.
When the class ended, she called Nicole and Gary over to the office. Firstly, she told Gary to work hard and prepare himself for the competition to bring an award back to school. Then, she turned to Nicole and sighed before speaking.
“Nicole, I asked you to join the competition because I trusted your ability. But Mr. Louis told me that you actually scored a zero on a mock assessment. Can you explain yourself?”
Nicole figured that Ms. Emerson looked for both her and Gary because she wanted to talk to them about this issue. Nicole looked up at Ms. Emerson, but a peculiar voice rang behind her when she was just about to speak.
“Oh, Ms. Emerson. Isn’t this the genius who scored a zero for the Math Olympiad assessment from your class? What’s wrong? Are you trying to talk to her?”
It was Mr. Kennedy. He was walking toward them with his thermos cup as he gloated.
“Is there no one else in Class B? One of your candidates is the third-lowest scoring student in the class. The other one is even worse; she actually scored a zero. This has really enlightened me! Why aren’t you pulling your students out from the competition when their levels are this
low?”
the first place and the other second. Mr. Kennedy thought, ‘The Math Olympiad competition award will go to my students!’ He looked at Ms. Emerson even more disdainfully upon
“You’ve got to be clear about this, Ms. Emerson. If you send both of these students to participate in the competition and they get bad
Emerson did not want to give in and wanted to clap back. But when Nicole heard what Mr. Kennedy said, she turned to tell Ms. Emerson, “Ms. Emerson, I want to drop
eyes behind his glasses were squinted.” Look at how wise Nicole is. She knows her place.
Nicole’s fast decision to drop out of the competition. However, when she thought about Nicole getting a zero for the assessment,
calmed herself down and said, “Nicole, if it’s too challenging, it’s okay to withdraw yourself from the competition.” Nicole looked at her and smiled faintly, “No, Ms. Emerson. I want to withdraw from the competition because the questions are just too simple. I want to challenge
She said the assessment was too easy last
at Nicole too. She also felt that Nicole was too much when she said the questions were easy. But
in her.
Kennedy looked at her with
with her finger. “We’ll bet that Ms. Emerson’s class will get
out loud. He looked
on this. What
lose, Mr. Kennedy, you’ll have to admit in front of the whole school that Ms. Emerson is the best teacher for the junior year in Royal Creek Institute during our break time!” Although Mr. Kennedy was a little upset by Nicole’s words, he