I was in grade 8 social studies class. The other social studies classes went on many field trips but our class never went on any. I was an A student and asked my teacher why and he replied that the class average was a D and should think about our classmates (who also had an attendance problem) who need more time to study.

I was mad at my classmates blatant laziness.

So I stopped trying. The next group project everyone wanted to work with me. I didn’t want to work with B students because they would expect a lot of work to pull to an A. I didn’t want to work with a D student because he would never show up to class. So I picked the C- student who was on the verge of failing (because of laziness and also he was a bully to me) and most motivated to work hard.

Teacher was surprised that I was so charitable to help a weak student even when he did all the work and I did ZERO. We did well mostly because of my reputation. Easiest assignment ever.