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Super Sis
Dear Super Sis,
You have a solution to everyone’s problems. I hope you can solve my problem too.
This year as we were promoted to a higher class, we inherited a left behind student. She had failed in her final exams and was not promoted to the next class. Just because she is a bit cute, half of the class wants to be friends with her. She hates studying and doesn’t want any of us to take our lessons seriously too. I am her total opposite. I wouldn’t have bothered about her but now she wants me to be friends with her. During class she stares at me, making funny faces, just to get a response out of me. I know she is a bad influence and I want nothing to do with her. What should I do?
Confused Scorpio
Dear Confused Scorpio,
Aren’t you making a bit too much of this? I mean she is not the devil or anything. She is just a kid like you. Okay, maybe she is not like you. She is a little older and just because she failed a year, you think she is a dullard and a bad influence.
If you want my advice,
I think you should stop ignoring her. She has already been punished enough by being held back a year.
Her old friends must look down on her so she wants to make new friends. If you reject her too, she would have nowhere to go.
Have some faith and confidence in yourself and your own abilities. If you really are a serious student you shouldn’t be led off the track so easily. If she’s a bad influence, then you are a good influence. Opposites are known to attract. By all means, make friends with her. You never know you may change her for the better.
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