“I heard that the principal has issued a plan for each class stating that the bottom-ranking class in the trial exam results will have to clean the entire school’s toilets!”
Deep down inside, every student of Class A knew that Class F would end up being on the receiving end of that punishment.
With a faint smile, Emily remarked with a note of curiosity, “Yes, I heard about that too; I wonder which class will come last this time.”
Upon hearing, everyone let loose a round of guffaw.
“Who else could it be?”
“It must be Class F! After all, Janet’s in it and she’s going to pull them all down.”
“Exactly. I can’t wait to take pictures of her brushing the toilet bowls and post them on our school’s Reddit forum. She definitely deserves some punishment after bluffing me that she had books written by Rose! It’s all her fault that I still don’t have the book until now!
“What’s more, those in Class F are the scum of our school as well as the entire society. I say good riddance to them!”
Subconsciously, everyone deemed the students in Class F a presence that was only going to bring damage to the school. They didn’t behave like students at all and spent their days taking naps and playing computer games instead of studying.
At that moment, Lilian walked into the class and said, “Everyone, please take the trial exam next month seriously!”
The students exchanged a smile among themselves before replying to her in unison, “Miss Lilian, we’ll do our best!”
Lilian grinned at Emily and urged, “Emily, please motivate your fellow classmates so that they will score as well as you in the next exam.”
“I will!” Emily flashed a sweet smile back at Lilian. In the meantime, she started coming up with a devious plan. If only she could post the video of Janet cleaning the toilet bowls to her family’s Messenger group chat. She wanted to see whether her mother and Grandma Jade would still defend Janet after watching the embarrassing video. Hmph.
After visiting the principal’s office, Daisy returned to Class F with a despondent look. The principal stubbornly refused to change the punishment no matter how hard she tried to persuade him.
Her face brooding, she decided to drop her usual gentle and docile attitude upon reaching Class F. Looking at the disinterested students, she rapped the top of her desk forcefully and snapped in a rare serious tone, “Listen to what I have to say next!”
“Miss Daisy, what is it?” the students asked in a lethargic tone.
Hearing how distracted they sounded, Daisy spoke sternly, “I just received a study plan from the principal. In the next trial exam, the class that has the worst average score will be punished to clean the school toilets for an entire month.”
The mention of cleaning toilets managed to draw the attention of the students.
“What? Cleaning the toilets? What a stupid rule!” The whole class soon went into an uproar, everyone voicing out their objection.
“In any case, I’m not going to clean the toilets! I’m dropping out!”
“Exactly. Why do we have to clean the toilets?”
“I don’t even clean the toilets at my house so why do I have to do it here?”
“No wonder Emily Jackson looked so smug just now. I bet she must have known about this way earlier!”
As most of the students in Star High School came from wealthy families, there was no way they would be willing to do the cleaning work at school considering they had never even been asked to do such chores at home.
Pulling a long face, Daisy smacked the table hard and shouted, “Stop fooling around. There is no way you guys can drop out now because it’s only months away from graduation.”
Everyone fell silent. On one hand, dropping out was definitely not a wise choice and their parents would never agree to it. On the other hand, they were extremely reluctant to clean the toilet bowls too. It was only when the students fell silent did Daisy’s voice come again, “Now, I’ll divide all of you into several study groups.”
“Study groups?”
Daisy nodded at them and announced solemnly, “I’ll pick five group leaders and all of you will be categorized according to your result in the end-of-semester exam. I think it’s time you all start taking this seriously because I’m guessing none of you here feel like cleaning the toilets?”
“We don’t!” the students shouted in unison.
Meanwhile, Daisy took out the table showing the class result in the end-of-semester exam. One glance was enough to remind her how bad their results were. Most of them only had a two-digit score and others barely over a hundred. There were only four students who scored more than two hundred.
As for Gordon, he was the second top student of the entire batch last year and was transferred to Class F with a total mark of more than four hundred. Asking him to help this hopeless bunch might be relatively humiliating.
