這件事情很久了，但我偶爾還是會想起這一對表姊弟
表姊的發言，請點這篇
Through Your Eyes
This happened maybe seven or eight years ago.One day, I found out that this eighth-grade boy was the younger cousin of one of my former high school students. Naturally, I got curious and asked,
“So, what made you want to start tutoring?”
He looked at me, buzz cut and baseball jersey and all, and said,
“Because my cousin told me you're the savior of academic failures.”
Wait, what?!
Excuse me? I had a full screen of question marks in my head.
“Why would she say that?” I asked.
He shrugged and said,
“My cousin started coming here in eighth grade too. Before that, she was getting, like, 40s on her exams. Then her mom started showing off to my mom about how she improved by 30 points. My mom was super jealous.”
I tried to recall her progress.
If I remembered right, her scores climbed from the 40s to the 60s, dipped to the 50s, shot up to the 70s, and eventually hit the 80s in ninth grade.
“It wasn't quite that dramatic,” I told him.
“She improved gradually. It wasn’t like a sudden 30-point miracle.”
But he just grinned and said,
“Well, if my cousin the academic disaster can pull that off, then I totally can too.”
……
I paused.
In my head, I was thinking, Hey, your cousin really wasn't a disaster. She worked hard! How can you say that?
So I said,
“Your cousin was actually pretty hardworking. Don't sell her short like that.”
That night, I jotted something down in my journal:
“So this is how they see me—
The Hero of Hopeless Students.”
我是英雄？我是救星？
話說
知道這位國二男生是我高一學生的表弟後，我有點好奇
他怎麼會想要來補習，我就問他
「你怎麼會想要來補習？」
「因為我表姊說你是學渣救星啊！」留著平頭，棒球校隊的男生說道
蝦米？
蝦米？蝦米？
蝦米？蝦米？蝦米？
我滿臉問號，想說這是啥跟啥啊
「為什麼這麼說？」我問道
「我表姊也是國二來補習的，來之前段考成績才四十幾，結果他媽媽跑來跟我媽媽炫耀說他段考成績進步了三十分。我媽羨慕地很。」
我回憶了一下，想著他表姊的情況
段考成績：大概是四十幾分進步到六十幾，又退到五十幾，然後突然漲到七十幾，國三八十幾
「也沒那麼誇張，你表姊是慢慢進步，沒有一下子突然進步三十分。」我說道
「反正我表姊那個學渣可以進步那麼多，我也可以。」他突然自信滿滿地說
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我的沉默──震耳欲聾。
(同學你表姊不是學渣，你怎麼可以那麼說？)
「你表姊不是學渣，他挺認真的。不要那麼說。」
那天的日記寫下
原來你眼中的我，是學渣救星！
我好像知道了女高中生的秘密 >口<
P.S.我有用Chat GPT抓錯字
