Exercise O

Barbara was a very impatient young girl. She found it intolerable and highly unnecessary to wait until her teachers finished talking before she put up her hand and asked impossible questions. As a rule, she disagreed with them, on principle. For that reason, she was unpopular in the staff room: The teachers disliked her behavior. They found her impolite and disloyal.
However, her classmates sided with Barbara. They were dissatisfied with the teachers and found it unfair/unjust to treat her in an unpleasant was only because they disapproved of her immodest manners. After all, Barbara was an independent young girl, and even though they might find her intolerable at times, the teachers should remember that a pupil is often insecure and does not really want to disobey the teachers. It was just unnatural for Barbara to keep her mouth shut when a teacher disappointed her with an improbable explanation. She got so excited that she felt it would be dishonest not to voice her opinion in public.
So this was the general view of her classmates: The teachers might think that Barbara was immature, insecure, imperfect, incompetent, and what not. In her case, it was no doubt a disadvantage to be outspoken. She simply felt displeased with school; she thought it was an inhuman and inefficient institution. This observation was, of course, unpleasant, but, in Barbara's opinion, not totally unfair/unjust.