Three Letters

NHD.

*shudder*

These letters have become the most hated letters in the alphabet to all the Honors History students in my school, and maybe even all over the world.

Why, you ask, do you hate these letters so much? What do they stand for?

Well, NHD stands for National History Day. In short, this is Hell on earth. You have four months to do a paper, a documentary, an exhibit or a presentation about something that fits with the theme for this year. Our theme was innovations. Sounds simple, right?

WRONG! The demon judges, or "teachers", tear apart everything you do, anything at all creative. They're perverted, choosing something that doesn't even fit the theme but shows off a teen girl's body for the highest grade. That's right- our perverted history teachers have decided that the Little Black Dress is more of an contribution to society then the violin, the camera, the clock, or duct tape. How in the world does that make any sort of sense?

I wrote a paper, while most of my friends did a presentation or a documentary. They had to stand in front of the three demons, answering the most ridiculous questions, often the same question more then once. I had to wait for two months upon handing my paper in, seeing no one's face and answering no questions. And you know what? I received my paper back and got 10 points off for putting a little joke at the end, trying to make it not so monotonous for my teacher. Haha, joke's on me. This people have no souls, they will not find your jokes funny. Instead they'll reduce your grade by more and take off an additional 20 points because they didn't like my writing style. (If, by now, you're not going WHAT THE HELL IS THEIR PROBLEM?!?!, you obviously need to get your head out of your ass and see just how unfair this really is.)

But you know what? I ended up getting a better grade then most people. 131 out of 200 possible points. That's a 66%. And I'm happy with this, especially when I hear of people who put just as much time and effort and love into their project as I did coming out with 50%'s. There was one kid who got 16% on this thing. So I'm pretty content with what I got, but there was so much anger and hatred going around the school today. You instantly knew when someone had just gotten their NHD grade back by the shocked, horrified or angry expression on their face. Angry because many feel they deserve better. Shocked because they thought they did good or horrified at the thought of telling their parents about their bad grade. This is currently what I'm feeling.

I feel I must warn you that if you don't hear from me, I've been killed by my mother. It was nice knowing you people.

Love,
Heather

P.S.

If anyone reads this and is about to choose their courses for their 10th grade year, do not, I repeat, DO NOT take Honors History if you want to keep your soul.