Boston, MA - Amber Rosenthal is a senior at Charlestown High School. She's on the stunt team, has a 3.2 GPA and is completely, unabashedly unable to read an analog clock. She is among a growing trend of students that are complete idiots, yet will earn their diplomas and go to college.
Rosenthal was sitting in history class on a recent afternoon. The students were listening to a lecture covering the invasion of Normandy when she leaned to the student in front of her - Terrence Johnson, a sophomore - and asked him what time it was. Terrance quietly pointed to the clock in the room and went about doodling on his desk.
He was surprised when Rosenthal insisted. "I don't like it when they don't have the numbers," she said.
Johnson wanted to help. "Teach a girl to fish, you know?" is what he would later say. "I explained the stuff about the big hand and the little hand, and how the big numbers are in groups of five minutes. She didn't seem to care.
Johnson has many talents. She can text extremely fast, is current on all of the reality and singing competition shows. She doesn't "get what World War II was all about," has never read an entire book, and helped organize last year's prom.
She will attend the University of Massachusetts, though she hasn't yet picked a major of study.
Rosenthal was sitting in history class on a recent afternoon. The students were listening to a lecture covering the invasion of Normandy when she leaned to the student in front of her - Terrence Johnson, a sophomore - and asked him what time it was. Terrance quietly pointed to the clock in the room and went about doodling on his desk.
He was surprised when Rosenthal insisted. "I don't like it when they don't have the numbers," she said.
Johnson wanted to help. "Teach a girl to fish, you know?" is what he would later say. "I explained the stuff about the big hand and the little hand, and how the big numbers are in groups of five minutes. She didn't seem to care.
Johnson has many talents. She can text extremely fast, is current on all of the reality and singing competition shows. She doesn't "get what World War II was all about," has never read an entire book, and helped organize last year's prom.
She will attend the University of Massachusetts, though she hasn't yet picked a major of study.
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