"Thank you, Ma'am," Bucky said easily, pretending he didn't see anything wrong with the way he was being looked at - and then he nudged Steve with him. "C'mon, let's take a couple minutes and work on homework."

Whether or not he was in class, he still did his best to do the homework. That way if he ever could get into the school, he wouldn't be behind. Even if it meant he had to steal a few fallen quarters to afford notebooks. He'd stolen worse.