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Johnny’s Failure — Part 7
Failure to Manage Time Properly
“It’s no wonder I can’t sleep with all this noise down here. What a racket! What’s going on?”
Johnny’s sudden appearance startled everyone. Johnny, too, was somewhat startled once he saw the policemen.
“Am I in trouble?” he asked.
“We love you, Johnny,” his mom said as she ran to him and gave him a big hug.
Johnny’s dad gave them a few seconds before he interrupted the hug to tell Johnny what was happening. “Johnny, we all know your academic situation is worse than you led us to believe; we know about the probation letter.” Then, pointing to the officers, he explained their presence. “This is Detective Frament and Officer Smith, and they’re trying to figure out how this could have happened.”
“Johnny,” the detective began, “we have a few ideas about what went wrong, but maybe you can fill in some of the details.”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, here’s what we have so far.” Checking his notes, Detective Frament rattled off the following problems. “It looks like you failed your science course because you were late for class too often and had too many absences, and you failed your online Composition course because you failed to submit your work. It also looks like you rarely opened your textbooks to…
