Personal Narrative: A Day At The End Of Summer School

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It was the end of 6th Grade and his Seth Smith’s grades were dropping quickly. His parents would get on him every night and tell him he had to get his grades up if he wanted to have a fun summer. Not in Summer School. It was the summer of 2012 in San Diego. Seth had gotten his grades up right at the end of 6th Grade. He wanted to play football in the Fall with all of his friends. But his parents wouldn’t let him play because they wanted to see better grades at the start of 7th Grade. Seth’s body was also not really meant to play a physical sport like football. He was short and plump, but athletic. Seth was kind of like a big fat tomato but stretched out a little bit with all human characteristics. Seth complained to his parents that tryouts were in the summer.
His parents response was, “Tough.”
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Once school started all of his friends started talking about how fun practices were and how they couldn't wait for the games to start. Seth complained to his parents every night. Once the games started his friends started to become much closer to each other while Seth felt like he was being left out. He started whining to his parents and wasn’t really helping himself get on the football team. Then his friends told Seth that he should try to make a deal with his parents. Seth told his friends that he would propose a deal to his parents. The deal was that if he had good grades through the first grading period, then his Dad would ask the football coach if he could join. But his Dad’s response was

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