title: FIRST GRADE TAKES A TEST
author:  Miriam Cohen 
description: Who's the smartest person in the first grade? When the teacher hands out a test, everybody can't wait to find out. But only lucky Anna Maria does well enough to move to a special class. Is getting the best grade all that matters?
zlib_text: Extra Credit for Little Abby
  Chloe St. Claire
  
  (C) Chloe St. Claire, 2015
  Cover art courtesy of https://www.flickr.com/photos/robnas/. License
  can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/. Original
  photo was resized, cropped, and overlaid with text.
  
  Abby knew she hadn’t done very well on the midterm. She had stayed
  up all night cramming, but for some reason the content for her biology class
  just wouldn’t stick. Now the teaching assistants were handing back the tests,
  and her knee bounced nervously as she waited for her grade. She wasn’t
  remotely surprised when it came back with a 28% and a See me after class in
  red ink. She sighed; her first year of university wasn’t going as well as she
  had hoped, and she had really needed a good grade on this test to keep a
  passing average.
  When the class ended, she slowly gathered her things so that no one
  would know she had been asked to stay behind. She waited for everyone else
  to leave before going up to the podium where her pro