Broken Tongue (The brave coward)

School was one of her favourite places she enjoyed education, loved math, and interested in history. She wouldn’t mind raising her hand and stammering while answering or explaining things; her teachers never made her feel that it was a problem. She was 13 when they moved to her claimed home; new house, new people, new culture, new facts, new life style and a new school. School was the major problem beside her mother's illness and travelling for a surgery and recovery. School oh school; in this country schools are nothing but miserable centres where education comes last; she, her brothers and sister have attended different schools private and public, Arabic and English; none of them were good to be called an education centre. She hated her new school; she hated her teachers except for one. She was behaving as she used to; a good student in math she was, it was her favourite subject; in one of her math classes, her teacher explained a theory to them and showed them how to solve some problems using it; she then wrote a question on the board and asked them to solve it; the girl figured that she could solve it in three steps instead of five; math teacher told her it was wrong and marked it wrong with a red pen. Then the teacher showed them how to solve it, and for her surprise it was the same result at the end, so the brave cowered raised her hand, "Yes?" asked the teacher "I have the same result" stumbling her words out; "You did it in three steps and it should be in five" replied irritated; "but this is an easier way that I have discovered, and it needs less steps yet with the same result" said the brave coward. "So you come from a foreign country being so proud of you self telling me how to do my job" shouted the teacher at her; no one have ever shouted at her like that, at her old school they would have granted her for her creative way. She was shocked and scared of her teacher's attitude, she tried to explain but her stammer flew to it's peak, her words would not come out easily and her teacher was telling her to shut up; but as a stubborn stammer and a very brave coward she was, she can't stop before completing her sentence which she started saying before her teacher told her to shut up; it is when her teacher told her to go the social supervisor's office. While walking the social supervisor's office she was saying in an audible voice "I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, I hate her, and I hate her" and her tears were covering her face. She came to her office and knocked the door "Come in" "Good morning Mrs. Shaikha" "Hi, were you crying?" "NO" "Ok, why are you here?" "My math teacher sent me to you" "Why?" "I don't know". She waited there for her math teacher to arrive and explain things to Mrs. Shaikha. The teacher arrived and Mrs. Shaikha told the girl to stay outside for a while; the math teacher started explaining things to Mrs. Shaikha in a very loud voice "This little girl is teaching me how to do my job; she thinks that she is smarter than me because she lived in a foreign country, I had to show her how to behave good and to teach her manners". "Yup yup yup she's crazy alright" the girl said to her self in a audible voice, it's when some one from behind her said "Who is crazy?"; the girl was so scared that she couldn't recognize the voice; luckily it was Mrs. Elham the English teacher who unfortinatley wasn't her teacher, "hahaha you scared me; it's my math teacher". The girl told Mrs. Elham what happened. Mrs. Elham solved the problem according to her definition of solving; but the brave cowered wasn’t pleased; she went home and told her father what happened, which she never did before, she never told him or her mother when she was bothered of peoples behaviour towards her stammer, but her teacher said big words about her needing to behave good and needs to be taught manners. "I don't want to go to school any more, and I will not until this teacher dies" "I will go to your school tomorrow morning and talk to your teacher" "Go alone, I'm not going with you" "Until when?" "Until I feel I want to". She stayed at home for one month; I don't remember what made her go back to school, but remember Mrs. Elham hugging her and kissing her on both cheeks. At her first day of coming back Mrs. Shaikha asked her to come to her office, because there's someone who wants to meet her. The girl went and there was a lady sitting in her office talking to Mrs. Shaikha. "This is Mrs. Nora, she wants to talk with you for a while; come sit over here, and I will leave the office for you two to talk". "Hi I'm Mrs. Nora" "Hi" "Come sit" "Okay" "Now tell me, how is school?" "Fine" "How are your grades?" "Don't know, just started" Stumbling her words out "Hmmm, do you do that all the time?" "Do what?" "Stammer when you talk" "aha" "I'm here to solve that" "solve what?" "Your stammer" No reply "Now you have to tell me when it started" "Does my family know about you talking to me about it?" "No, but Mrs. Shaikha will tell them later" "Sorry then I can't talk to you" "But I'm here to help you" The brave coward stood up and went to her class. To be continued