So yesterday I got in the classroom and sat down at my usual spot. As I was chating with a friend, the teacher got into the class and brought his stuff to his desk. He then came to me and asked if I was “Gabrielle”. So he asked if we could talk.  I got up and followed him to his desk, I knew what it was going to be about. So yeah, it was about my last essay I wrote in class. We had to write an argumentative essay on anything we wanted (see post entitled “Little Essay”). I wrote on the issue of “Is Jesus the Son of God, yes or no?” and gave three arguments for it (yes). My teacher told me he couldn’t mark my paper (so I got zero). Because I was addressing a question of faith, according to him,  argumentating was irrelevant. He was really nice about it all and was not like trying to put me down, he told me the writing was good, but irrelevant for this work. He finished by telling me that we would be marked only for the 5 best in-class essays, and since this one was my sixth, I’d be alright anyways.  Fine then. I did not argue and I kept my “Yeah I understand, it’s fine” type of attitude. I seriously did not care about the fact that I got zero, this essay was not worth much and I had already 5 other essays behind me. I went back to my desk and started thinking. I wondered if it was really true that my essay could not be marked. It’s true that I don’t know much about academic writing and I know my teacher knows much and is used to read a lot and etc. but I still think that my essay was an argumentative essay. If faith is a matter of opinion and beliefs, it is the same for topics like death penalty, uniforms in schools and all the other topics that were written on. It’s all a matter of opinion and beliefs, that’s why people have different views on these issues. Studies are conducted and surveys are made in order to either give weight to one side or the other side of an issue, that’s from there we get our arguments. I don’t really see why a question of faith could not be considered relevant for that type of essay. Because I state the issue and then provide arguements (backed with the Bible)… why can’t it be marked? Not sure. Maybe I don’t understand my teacher’s point of view about it all, the difference between faith and … world-related topics like “Should we legalized gay marriages” and the like. I don’t know. I do understand that if any person would write about some stuff in his religion, it’d be harder for everyone to relate, but still, to me it’s still an argumentative essay that could have been marked. But it’s alright, I’m fine with it. I just thought it was interesting.