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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

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Plasticware Offline
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I feel dissapointed

My best friend and I were in a PSCD lesson ( We usually get treated like little children in here ). And yeah, we were having a normal lesson while I wanted to prank someone, I took my other friend's pocket and put it on my best friend's desk. Until than the lesson was over, my friend was looking for his pocket and found it on my best friend's desk. After that the teacher got mad and said she'll give my best friend points, and by points I mean negative points, not good ones ( Its how our school's system works ). But we are not sure if that was true.

Do you think this is a stupid reason to give 'points' to an innocent person when it wasn't his fault? I never knew that would happen tough, its just so wrong. I know it was my fault tough, but what do you think?
06-06-2015 01:37 AM
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Ami Offline
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RE: I feel dissapointed

Giving points in the first place is stupid. A points system is stupid. Is your school mandatory? Do you have to go? If so, that's probably stupid as well. And what's a PSCD?
06-12-2015 06:51 PM
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