Bad Grade

I was sitting in my math class take an exam. My pencil had slipped out of my hand and landed under the desk of the person sitting next to me. I tapped the person on the arm and pointed at the pencil under her desk. I did not open my mouth and I did not say a word. My teacher looked up from grading her papers on her desk and saw me looking at the girl next to me. She didnt even ask and picked up my paper and put a zero on it. My grade had dropped a whole letter grade because of that test. I thought this was a very unfair situation because i didnt even get a chance to stand up for myself and tell my half of the story. The worst part of it all was that the girl next to me didnt get anything done to her because she was facing in the right direction and I was not. I talked to all my friends about it as well as my parents and they told me to go talk to my teacher about the situation. I had to work up some courage to go talk to my teacher I just had this feeling that she wasnt even going to listen to me. Finally the next day I walked into her office and asked if I could speak to her. She told me to sit down and I began to talk. She listen to my story and she just kept knodding her head and smiling. She told me that she knew I wasnt a student that would cheat on anything. She also told me that she has to treat every st udent the same way and if she saw anyone else doing that she would of done the same thing. She said she was sorry but there was no way i could retake the test or improve my grade. I walked out still thinking this was unfair and she didnt even think twice about it. I just told myself i will make sure to bring an extra pencil to all my classes.