"…making it an intransitive verb," finished the imposing blond as he highlighted his explanation with meticulous notes at the edges of the sentence.
A hand suddenly shot into the air out of Germania's peripheral, and he turned and sighed. With reluctance, the man prompted, "Yes, America?"
America's hand fell back onto his desk with pronounced volume as soon as he was recognized, only for his other to raise up off of the flat surface and point vaguely at the board; Germania assumed he was talking about the example sentence. "You spelled 'color' wrong," pointed out the teenage nation boldly, without even a respectful "sir" or other form of proper address to his teacher. To his left, England's hand came up to his face with a soft smack, and Canada, seated behind him, sunk down in his chair as if embarrassed.
Germania fought the urge to sigh and turned, humoring America with the logic that maybe his old age was getting to him and he had written the wrong thing. Of course, this proved to be false, when he confirmed the distinct presence of the letter U near the tail end of the word. Given this fact, he turned to look back at America. "It's spelled correctly," stated the Germanic man dismissively with all intention to pick up his lesson.
"…but there's a U in it," protested the bespectacled country, apparently genuinely confused and not quite willing to let Germania go through with his plan to resume where he had left off. "You can't even hear the U. You should just leave it out."
Germania massaged the middle of his forehead with his first two fingers even as he registered at least one of England's brothers snickering from the back of the classroom. "If that's your opinion, America, you are free to have it," he started, "but it's not my concern how it ends up affecting your grade."
Restrained laughter rippled through the classroom and America continued to wear his bemused expression. "Well, my opinion is awesome, so does that mean my grade will be, too?" At this point, the confusion warped into an eager, triumphant grin. "Are you going to give me an A+ for coming up with such a genius new idea? Don't worry, when you teach it to nations in the future, you can have the credit!"
The held-back sounds of amusement in the classroom bubbled to a crescendo of hysteria, intermingled with the embarrassment of the humbler countries. The disruption carried on to fill the few minutes left before the bell rang and Germania shook his head, erasing the board to prepare for his next period. "Class is dismissed," he announced tiredly, though some of the students less eager towards academic endeavors were already halfway out the door.
America shoved his materials unceremoniously into his bag as England packed his neatly away, and as soon as the pair were out the door, England turned to fixate a stare that wavered between irritation and deadpan.
"That's why you're failing English, you stupid git."
A/N: so, um, well, this idea just sort of occurred to me when i was pondering Hetalia, because that is what i do, i ponder these things. and i was wondering; assuming in Gakuen-verse, World Academy W offered English classes, wouldn't they teach British English? or, well, maybe not British English exactly, but definitely not American English. of course, America (being America and all) would do his own thing, "the American way", and thus would probably be failing his English class, ahaha.
i picked Germania as the teacher because (from my admittedly very minimal research) English originated in that general area, which would make Germania one of (if not the) oldest nation to know English, and therefore the one to teach it to all the other nations. i apologize for any historical inaccuracy and also if his inclusion or his personality contradicts any canon or anything -- i'm not too familiar with his character, so um, i'm sorry if i messed anything up. :c also, England would totally be America's de-motivational English tutor.
i have some other ideas along these lines, with America in his classes and all, so keep an eye out for new chapters. c: Cee out!