My high school awarded me a five-hundred dollars scholarship for my screen writing abilities. My teachers were very sly about it, I didn't have any idea until the called my name during the senior assembly, right in front of the entire student body.

How cool! Congrats

I wish they would have had a screenwriting class in my school.

How underhanded of them. Secretly giving you $500 like that. And in front of everybody. Imagine the audacity. If I were you, I would refuse it. I've give it to me. you know, out of principle.  ;)

Well done! That was nice of them to do that  ;D

Yeah, I thought it was very cool of them.

George,
You're a funny man.
Cindy

Wow.  My scripts were too subversive, critical of rules and bluntly insulting towards specific teachers, for them to have even considered giving me such an award.  Bruce Snyder -- creator of THE LUNCHROOM -- should get an award like that from his high school.  I wonder if they even know what he's doing.

I wrote a screenplay for a major project in English and it got me the only 100% in all of the classes.  That's the closest I've ever come to cash =S