51 Curse of the quiz (1/2)

Stepping to the front of the class, Ensen clapped his hands five times at different intervals to make a basic rhythm.

This act immediately got the students' attention, well all but the two people sitting in the back row, Warren and Brian.

Deciding to clap louder this time, he repeated the same rhythm while staring at the two.

”Oh!” Warren shouted as he realized what was going on.

Unlike Warren, Brain simply looked down in embarrassment as everybody in the class had been staring at them.

Lightly clearing his throat to regain everybody's attention, Ensen began to speak. ”Alright, so this is your guy's first real class so I'll just go over a few things before we start.”

Pausing for a moment, Ensen looked at the teacher's desk with two separate stacks of paper. One stack had five pieces of paper with the class schedule printed out on each one.

Walking over to pick up the papers, Ensen continued with his speech ”I'll be giving you a piece of paper with the schedule of your classes for this semester, so do your best to either keep it or memorize your classes. If you lose it somehow it is not a big deal, but please do your best to keep it.”

Grabbing the papers, Ensen began to walk around the classroom and give each student a copy of the schedule.

There were a total of four different classes in total at the moment at Evergreen Academy, English, Math, Music, and Gym. Although Gym was currently run by Ensen who… was not the most qualified teacher. But for the moment it would be fine.

Although Ensen would love to have other important classes such as social studies, science, and similar things, he simply did not have the manpower at the moment.

As things stand right now he was teaching three different classes. While there were only five students, Ensen was trying to do his best to create a lesson plan that could be used for other classes in the future which limited his time by quite a bit.

While Ensen didn't particularly mind all of the busywork, if he took on too much work at once the quality of the work would severely decline, which was the one thing Ensen didn't want. After all, this Academy was supposed to be an elite institution in the future, he couldn't go around designing subpar lesson plans.

”Alright, now can somebody tell me what class this is supposed to be now? Look at the schedule to see.” Ensen asked, making sure that the students understood how the schedule worked. Even though it seemed pretty simple, he wanted to be sure just in case.

After a few seconds, Leah raised her voice and said ”Right now is… English, principal.”

Nodding in agreement, Ensen continued ”That is right, so I'll be handing the classroom over to Mr. Gerhardt who will continue.”

Looking towards Gerhardt who had been standing next to the door since he arrived at the classroom earlier, Ensen slowly walked towards the back of the classroom to spectate as Gerhardt began to stiffly walk upfront.

'Oh, is he nervous? Well, luckily there are only five students here for now, if there were more I wouldn't be surprised if he fainted.' Ensen thought as Gerhardt began to speak.

”Welcome to English everybody. Now I understand that people may have varying degrees of knowledge about the English language, but no need to worry about that. I will make sure that every student will learn as much as they can this semester.” Gerhardt said.

Pausing for a moment to seemingly consider how to properly phrase the next part, Gerhardt said slowly ”Now there will be just a simple quiz to determine where all of you are at which you will have 30 minutes to complete..”

As soon as Gerhardt stopped speaking, audible sighs filled the room.

'I guess everybody hates tests, fair enough.' Ensen thought.

Making eye contact with Gerhardt, Ensen tried to signal something with his eyes.

Noticing the odd behavior Ensen was showing, Gerhardt turned his gaze towards him and simply stared at him for a few seconds before realizing what he had been trying to signal.

”This quiz will not be marked or affect your grade in any way, it's just to find out where we should begin our class.” Gerhardt clarified.

Although the students seemed a little better after hearing that, they still weren't too keen on taking a quiz.

As Gerhardt began to hand out the quizzes that had been lying on the teacher's desk beforehand, the students had begun to work.