Accused!
Have you ever been accused of doing something wrong?
It happened to me when I was taking a college English class.
One assignment called for defining words and terms related to a topic of my choosing. I immediately knew what I wanted to write about: the terms related to speech and debate.
Why? I attended the University of Kansas Summer Debate Institute between my junior and senior years of high school. By the time I graduated from Los Angeles High School, I had earned the National Forensic League’s Double Ruby designation for competitive speaking. It so happened I was also on the university’s speech team.
I turned in my paper, and left class confident I had done my best work.
A few class meetings later, the teacher handed back the papers. I had high expectations.
The teacher gave back my paper, and that is when I saw the red “F.” There was also a note about plagiarism.
I was stunned. I scheduled a time to meet with the teacher during her office hours.
Later that afternoon, I went to the speech team’s office and met the head speech coach, John Tagg. I told him what happened, and asked him to read my English paper.
Right then, he sat down and typed a letter explaining that I knew all of the terms I wrote about in my paper.
Within a few days, I met with my English teacher, and when I showed her the letter, she changed my grade to an “A.”
Been accused? Pray. God can make a way.
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