This had to be done at some stage, this being a small rant about leaving exams early. I finished every single one of my exams early, some with five minutes to spare and some with over half an hour, so naturally, when I was finished I left to avoid sitting in an exam centre doing nothing for ages. Legally we're allowed to leave our exams between the first half an hour of the exam and the last ten minutes, we were told this by the superintendent. However, the teachers in my school have all told us we're not allowed to leave the exams early and shouldn't even think about it. Though they can't physically make us stay until the end of the exam, two of the teachers have made it their life mission to patrol the corridors and give out to any students that left early.
The whole cause of this post however, was the talk Ms. McDonough gave students that left early one day (this includes me and Ruska). We, along with other students who left the first exam early, were in the canteen waiting for the next one. Of course we were making a fair bit of noise, which led Ms. McDonough to walk in and I tell you, when she saw all of us, she was furious. She gave out to us asking how dare we leave the exam early, she went on to say that she is appalled by the amount of us that did so and basically threatened anyone who thought of leaving the next exam (which was religion) early. Now I get it that leaving the exam right after the first half an hour is not the best idea, but when we have a two and a half hour exam which is easy and finish early, then why not leave if we can? I get the whole idea of checking over your exam when you're done (even though I don't do it myself) but they can hardly expect us to check it over and over and over again for twenty minutes (which Ms. McDonagh apparently does). Ms. McDonough pretty much called us idiots for leaving early, well if I didn't leave early it's not like I'd read over the exam a million times anyway, I would just sit and stare at the wall. Also, I'd say I'm quite smart, which is why I left the exam early, I knew the answers so I wrote them down without needing a long time to think of them, so I'm offended that she called me and idiot. If I remember correctly she finished of with saying 'Don't let me catch you out of that religion exam early'. Of course it being religion and me being smart, I left the religion exam early and ended up getting given out to by Ms. McDonough and the other teacher patrolling the halls. I didn't mind that though, the thing I did mind was the pouring rain outside and the fact that I couldn't find Ruska anywhere (we agreed to leave early and meet outside the school along with our friend Alex). Now, I thought that Ruska is smart and there is no way she would stand in the rain so I pretty much searched the whole school looking for her, while Alex waited at the doors (I couldn't even call her because she took mine and Alex's stuff with her). We eventually found her and guess where she was, outside in the rain. Nice Ruska, very nice.
Goodbye my munchkins,
Your master, Weronika
So I totally agree with Weronika about leaving exams early, which I did for almost all of my exams. I feel guilty leaving the exam until there's only half an hour left so I was fairly regularly left sitting staring blankly at a wall for a good chunk of time. I think that Ms McDonough was totally out of line in telling us off for leaving early but whatever, I don't really care that much. She can't do anything about it so let her have her stupid rants and just ignore them. On the me waiting for Weronika and Alex in the rain, we arranged to meet outside and I got out of the exam well before they did and went outside. At this point it was still sunny outside and once it started raining I just ran for shelter instead of going inside where I would probably get given out to by Ms McDonough or Darina (the other person doing the giving out)
Goodbye my munchkins,
Ruska
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