Show Mercy!

This is an episode based on Lev’s school video. This story takes place in Cameron County in LA and it's called Lev Middle School. The Grayson family and Polly attend this place, along with Piper, Jentzen, and Lev. There are teachers there that have many different personalities. Mr. Bob teaches History and is very funny in a way that entertains the other students, Mr. Cool teaches Math and is a awesome guy to be friends with, Ms. Sugar teaches Science and loves her students a lot, Ms. Name teaches Art and is very weird, Mr. Jack teaches PE and is very strict, and Mr. Igor made his own subject that no one understands.

This story takes place on the last week of school and it was the time for report cards. They were receiving their report cards on this day from their homeroom teacher, Ms. Cameron, and most of the students were very afraid of what their grades would be, especially the ones that were in PE.

Piper received her report card, and she made a 60 in History, an 100 in Math, 100 in ELA, 70 in PE, and 97 in Igor. She was glad that she didn’t fail any of the classes, but wanted an A B honor roll.

“It’s ok,” said Ms. Cameron. “At least you move on to the 9th grade.”

“Yeah, I guess,” Piper said.

Jentzen received his grades, and he was happy that he also passed all of his classes. Unlike Piper, he didn’t care about not getting an A B honor roll, he just cared about passing.

Then Lev received his grades, he was a whole point away from passing PE, but in his other classes, he passed. He had to repeat the 8th grade due to an activity class and Piper didn’t think that was fair. She told Ms. Cameron to do something about it, but she was only a teacher and couldn’t do anything about it. But Piper wanted further justice for Lev and went to the principal’s office to talk about changing his grade to a 60, but he didn’t.

“Its too late now,” he said. “The report cards have already been printed out and that’s it for the year. Sorry.”

This caused Piper to leave the office crying that she wouldn’t be her friend again for another year. When she was in the rest of her classes, she didn’t act like her bubbly self and couldn’t stop thinking about Lev. Her other friends had tried to talk to her, but she ignored them. Jamison had felt sorry for Piper and decided to jump in to see what she could do to help Lev pass. She went to Mr. Jack to see why Lev had gotten that low of a grade.

“Because I can,” he snapped. “Don’t tell me how to do my job okay?”

“No there’s got to be a reason. You can’t just fail someone just because you want to. Now be honest, why did you fail him? You could’ve at least gave him a 60.”

“He doesn’t deserve it,” Mr. Jack replied. “He’s been way too disruptive in Health class with ms perfect, and when I tell him to do something, he refuses to do it and says that I’m pushing him too hard. I don’t know what’s gotten into him.”

Jamison’s face went red. She had enough. “No, what’s gotten into you? You’ve been literally pushing us to our knees and then scolding us because we couldn’t do something even though we aren’t built for the type of things you put us through.” Her voice then started to crack. “That’s literally abuse and you should stop before someone finds you out and it starts spreading around the county and you could get the school sued because of your harsh actions!”

Mr. Jack was surprised. He had never been talked back to a student before, and he understood everything that Jami had said. But he was still a bit confused.

“Aren’t you supposed to push people to their limits though?” Mr. Jack asked. “I mean, this is like streamlining them to be stronger faster rather than wait a few weeks to see results.”

“No it’s not,” Jamison said. “It’s not about time, it’s about having fun and doing your own pace, taking breaks if necessary, and about improvement. Let them adapt to getting used to the task, don’t just give them something hard to do, be easy on them.”

Mr. Jack was silent. He understood what he had done, and decided to apologize to all of his students for being the way he was with them. He changed the bad grades to good ones, including Lev’s which both Piper and Jami were most relieved of. Piper hugged Jamison hard, to show thanks for changing Mr. Jack’s heart and letting Lev pass his class. When Lev got the news, he was so relieved and gave Jami a huge thanks.

 Unfortunately, things didn’t go well for the PE teacher. Someone had overheard Jamison’s conversation and brought it up to the principal. He then called Mr. Jack to his office and repeated everything that the bystander said. Mr. Jack confessed what he had done and didn’t fight against it. Hunter had fired him at that moment, and gave the position to one of the Poe family, Levi. He was much better and encouraged others to stick to a comfortable pace. He never got strict or forced anyone to do anything. The people that weren't going to high school loved their PE subject because of the new teacher. Mr. Jack was never heard from again after he was fired, but legend has it that he’ll return soon.