Beef (S)

In a 10th grade class a student named Melissa gives her literature exam blank. When her teacher recriminates the fact, Melissa attacks her claiming that everything she has to learn in school is of no use to her. Between the laughter and the ridicule the teacher will do everything possible to defend her position as a teacher and as a person and will find herself in the difficult task of justifying the discredited education she imparts. The discussion will be the trigger for these characters to discover that perhaps they are much closer than they thought.