Stephen Dubner
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I liked math.
On a math test, I had the teacher bring it back to me.
Like she made me stay after class.
teacher, she was convinced that I had cheated on the test.
I got like a 97 on the test.
I didn't know what to say.
I'd never cheated.
I had people cheat off of me, but I was also very shy as a kid.
So if I weren't shy, I would have said, what are you talking about?
Or I would have said to my mother when I got home, like this is going on with Mrs. So-and-so, but I did none of that because I was very shy and obedient and willing to take a beating as a kid.
I don't like that at all.
And then she made me take the retest and I got a 98, one better, which didn't surprise me because I had seen the test before.
And you know what she did after?
Because she was now embarrassed.
Then I was so pissed because it felt like an injustice.
So I feel like now...