Speak2004

Melinda Sordino:
Excuse me, sir? Um, I was wondering if... uh, I was j...

Mr. Neck:
Come on, Sordino. Spit it out. You have to learn to enunciate. Or else no one will listen.

Melinda Sordino:
I was wondering if there was any way I can raise my grade?

Mr. Neck:
Parents got the report card, huh?

Melinda Sordino:
No, I just wanted to.

Mr. Neck:
Why should I give you that chance?

Melinda Sordino:
Everyone deserves a second chance. I mean, isn't that what Jesus said?

Mr. Neck:
Are you being smart with me?

[shakes her head]

Mr. Neck:
OK. I'm feeling generous. Just because I don't wanna have to see your face in summer school. Write me a report on a cultural influence at the turn of the century. And it better be good.

Melinda Sordino:
It will be.

Melinda Sordino:
[voiceover] I'll write about the suffragettes. Before they came along women were treated like dogs.