Chapter 11: It's Not My Limit
Tommy Hawke's Lincoln High School is a public high school established by the Rhode Island state government in the 1960s during the so-called baby boom era, sharing the name of Lincoln, the greatest president of the United States, with thousands of schools across the United States, but obviously, Lincoln Public High School in Warwick is one of the garbage schools that deserves the president's name.
Although the ranking is junk, the school's hardware facilities are not bad, on the contrary, it looks like it has everything in place, with a gymnasium, swimming pool and even a campus theater, and the school guides and encourages students to form diverse interest groups such as drama, art, choir, photography, cheerleading, guitar, school newspaper, robotics club, moot court and even Dungeons & Dragons Club.
Sports have baseball, basketball, hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, football, softball, swimming, volleyball and even American wrestling, etc., and a table tennis team was formed last year, but the results were poor, and the best sports results were the quarterfinals of the state's high school competition.
The school's original intention to encourage the development of student diversity is very good, but the reality is cruel, the whole high school has been established for more than 20 years, and the famous alumni memorial wall in the honor exhibition room is still in a blank state.
Lincoln High School has been established for more than 20 years, dozens of clubs, and more than 10,000 graduates have not given birth to even a memorable alumnus, according to the speculation of the school newspaper this year, the most likely well-known alumni to appear on the wall in the near future will probably be in three years.
It was an ice hockey student who graduated last year and was admitted to Providence Academy, and if he was as good as ever and had no injuries, he should be able to participate in the ice hockey league draft after college, and he would likely be drafted in the first round, at which point Lincoln High School might be able to put his picture on the wall and brag about it.
The four grades of the school combined, a total of more than 500 students, Tommy Hawk is in the eleventh grade, according to his own calculations, he can hold on for two more days at most, he should have completed the credits to meet the graduation, and then there is no need to waste time every day in some ineffective courses.
As soon as Tommy parked his bike in the parking lot, two high school friends had already walked up to him from afar and said, "Hey, Tommy! β
"Hey, Dennis, hey, Pam!" Tommy Hawk greeted the two with a shoulder bag for lunch.
Lincoln High School does not have the concept of class, only the concept of grade, and even the concept of grade is very weak, so the concept of admission in China has always been the same class, and it will not appear here.
Maybe in the last chemistry experiment class, you are surrounded by a group of classmates, and the next drama performance class may be replaced by another group of people, so the advantage is that the range of communication in school will be very wide, after all, if you often meet the same classmate in different classrooms, it probably means that everyone has the same interests and is easier to become friends.
Dennis and Pam are Tommy Hawk's friends, or rather, the stinking high school best friend of the trash Tommy who wasn't reborn before.
"Thanks to your answers, I got an A on my math homework with Pam last week, and this is for you." Dennis handed Tommy a Gatorade: "Thank you, brother, you know, I also prepared another thank you gift, originally to reward myself and Pam, but the plan has changed, and now, it's yours." β
As he spoke, Dennis lowered his voice and took out a black card from his pocket and said, "Heaven, the day card of Paradise Club." β
Tommy didn't pick it up: "Man, you know I've been uninterested in these lately. β
Club Paradise is a striptease club in Providence, a dream mecca for countless high school boys, who have come up with countless ways to get in and see the world.
The Day Pass is an unlimited one-day ticket to the club, priced at $15, and allows the holder to spend as many hours as they want in the club on the day.
βWhatοΌ Brother, what's wrong with your brain? This thing sells for fifteen dollars, and it's a day pass that gives you as much access to the club as you like today, and you can have a good time inside! As the name suggests, it's heaven! Hearing that Tommy wasn't interested, Dennis ran his finger around his temple twice, "No man is going to be uninterested in this thing, unless you're a damn faggot." β
"I'm not a, it's just that heaven is better for me right now." Tommy Hawk said with a smile.
Dennis looked around, carefully stuffed the black card into Tommy's hand, and asked righteously: "If it weren't for me finding the most important life goal before graduation, and I want to achieve it today, and you let me get an A in my homework, I wouldn't give it to you, go and see, you have simply changed people in the past two months, and it turns out that Tommy who exchanged magazine ideas with us all day long!" Brother, you have fallen! You have to get back to your original self and think about the question, what did you grow up for, did you want to fuck college? No! It's for the pretty girls! β
Pam intimately reminded: "Remember to tell the white security guard who guards the door, don't pay attention to the black security guard, the code is correct so he won't check your ID, when he asks you if you are an adult, what you have to do is not give him your ID, but say the code, Bruce of Hill Street, and then he will let you in." β
"OK, OK, thank you, I'll go see it." Tommy took it, shook it for a moment, and walked towards the teaching building with the two of them, smiling as he walked: "So, I didn't come to school yesterday, is there any news?" β
"Of course, yesterday I spent five hours with Pam and accomplished a great thing, man, my highlight with Pam is coming!" Dennis, who had porcupine hairstyle, opened the hallway locker, threw his schoolbag in, and said in a mysterious low voice.
"That's right, it's definitely a big event that can be counted in the history of the school, Tommy." Pam was beside him, and he also whispered with a little excited face.
This intrigues Tommy, who knows two sworn friends, Dennis likes to exaggerate, but Pam is the quintessential otaku who rarely talks about it.
This guy is a little thin, his hair is unkempt, he wears short-sighted glasses as thick as a dictionary, he is silent, most of the time, Dennis or Tommy acts as his spokesperson, looking at that look, he looks like the kind of genius who is excellent in learning and not good at communicating, but in fact, this guy is extremely hands-on, but he is an out-and-out scumbag, and now the eleventh and seventh grade writing questions are very difficult for him, and his future plan is to prepare to go to a community college to learn cooking and become a chef, The reason is that it will be easier to talk to a beautiful hostess.
To be honest, Tommy had been worried about whether Pam, who was blind without his glasses, would appear on the local news for poisoning or manslaughter if the kitchen temperature fogged up the lenses.
"What did you two do?" Tommy Hawke asked Pam about it.
Pam looked at Dennis, Dennis put his index finger to his lips, made a shush~ motion, signaled Pam to keep it secret from Tommy for the time being, and spoke himself:
"I'm the Lincoln High School Man of the Year, Tommy, in short, you must ...... the third section of the psychology distance education course"
But before Dennis could finish speaking, a male voice was already sounding not far away: "Tommy Hawk, come here." β
Tommy turned around, and Ronnie Williams, the teacher at Lincoln High School who provided college screening guidance, was poking his head out of his office with a cup of coffee and greeting Tommy Hawk.
"See you in the third lesson." Dennis patted Tommy on the shoulder, then greeted Ronnie Williams with Pam and walked away.
"Good morning, Mr. Williams." When Tommy Hawke walked into Ronnie Williams' office, he found that there was another woman in the office.
Light blonde medium-length hair, black suit and skirt, at most twenty-five or sixteen years old, with the appearance of a female teacher who perfectly meets the fantasies of all male high school students, it is undeniable that the host of the American blind date show "My Her" often says at this moment: "This is an absolute 3S-level beauty." β
At this time, this 3S beauty, with a smile on her face, looked at Tommy Hawke, who was called in by Ronnie.
"Let me introduce, Ottilia Farrell, the new instructor at Lincoln High School." Ronnie took a sip of his coffee and said to Tommy Hawk with a serious face, "I'm sorry, Tommy...... I can't help you anymore, I'm having a problem with my job, sorry ......"
Seeing Ronnie Williams' depressed expression of unemployment, Tommy Hawke was stunned for a moment, and then opened his hand and said in understanding: "Oh, Mr. Williams, you have worked in this school for seventeen years, I mean maybe the principal made a hasty ......"
"I'm going to the state government's Office of Student Safety and Health to start a new job! Brat! Seeing Tommy's regretful expression, Ronnie immediately changed his face and said loudly and excitedly: "It's only a five-minute walk from the stadium, and I don't have to worry about traffic jams and missing the Pilgrim game!" β
"Congratulations, Mr. Williams." Tommy stared at Ronnie for a few seconds before he congratulated him insincerely, "That's great news." β
"So, in the future, Miss Ottulia Farrell will take over my counseling on university admissions, and Miss Farrell will also take over the guidance of some school clubs." Ronnie Williams finished pranking Tommy, turned to the new instructor Otilia and introduced, "Tommy Hawke, this guy is the only good guy in this school who has taken AP6 courses at the same time in three years!" After three weeks, the whole school will know how good he is. β
Three weeks later, he refers to the time for AP exams.
"Hello, Miss Farrell." Tommy politely greeted him.
"Hello, Tommy Hawke." Otilia Farrell smiled a little stunned: "Sorry, I didn't mean to discriminate against you, but I don't know what Ronnie meant, taking six AP courses is very rare at Warwick Lincoln High School?" If I'm not mistaken, when I was a student at Andover Phillips High School, there were 34 AP courses for college preparation, and most of my classmates chose five or six courses as required, and seven or eight courses were common. β
"No, miss, it's not that I can only take six AP courses, but because of the lack of educational resources, our school can only provide a maximum of six AP courses." Tommy Hawke smiled wryly at Ottilia Farrell, who came from a top private high school in the United States:
"It's not my limit, it's the limit of the educational resources that American education can give to poor high school students who only deserve to go to public schools."