The document summarizes the first day of senior year for two girls at La Salle High School. Their new physics-mathematics teacher, Mr. Charles Berdie, pushes the students extremely hard, assigning 100 math exercises for homework each night and checking them the next morning. The girls find this workload unsustainable and worry they will not have time to complete all their other schoolwork. They decide to talk to Mr. Berdie to ask him to ease up on the assignments and pace of the class.