Chemistry Class
Lower Merion High School
Lower Merion, PA
Six long weeks during the summer of 1971
I didn't take Chemistry during the school year because I didn't want to push myself academically that much. But one of my classmates told me that I would never get in to any college without having taken a chemistry class.
So I asked my parents if I could go to summer school for this course. This request annoyed my parents as they had just paid a hefty tuition fee for my 11th grade, private education. And there was still a 12th grade tuition bill waiting to be paid. So I had to pay to take this course.
I took the course at a nearby public school. I really struggled, academically and socially. I wasn't up fro the rigor of the class. And I had never been in a public school so that intimidated me. I got a C and that was a gift. Mr. Harkins, an Irishman, gave another Irishman an unearned grade. I think I probably earned a D at best.
And years later, when I looked at my transcript, I discovered this course never made it on my transcript.
Lower Merion High School
Lower Merion, PA
Six long weeks during the summer of 1971
I didn't take Chemistry during the school year because I didn't want to push myself academically that much. But one of my classmates told me that I would never get in to any college without having taken a chemistry class.
So I asked my parents if I could go to summer school for this course. This request annoyed my parents as they had just paid a hefty tuition fee for my 11th grade, private education. And there was still a 12th grade tuition bill waiting to be paid. So I had to pay to take this course.
I took the course at a nearby public school. I really struggled, academically and socially. I wasn't up fro the rigor of the class. And I had never been in a public school so that intimidated me. I got a C and that was a gift. Mr. Harkins, an Irishman, gave another Irishman an unearned grade. I think I probably earned a D at best.
And years later, when I looked at my transcript, I discovered this course never made it on my transcript.
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