What's the worst a teacher's treated you?
What's the worst a teacher's treated you?
my calculus teacher did little senior year jokey biographies of people as a big powerpoint on the last day. he was well loved, venerable, yet also slightly ... odd. sharp, but vaguely weird. he separated people into basically informal friend groups [with multiple people on the same slide] and people who were the sort of weird alone people. i was one of the alone people. and he said i slept all the time for some reason, i was very sleep deprived but very anxious.
i was sleep deprived all of school really, it started so fucking early, terribly unfair to anybody's sleep schedule
upon typing this I suppose it isn't the Worst but it's still not a fun way to end
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This wasn't malicious per se, but I had an English teacher/school counsellor who suspected I had some sort of learning disability and treated me like an idiot because of it, but like in that sort of "poor you let me help you" way that's like really condescending that ended up really hurting my self confidence.
If I struggled with something for any reason, I was given something easier. If something I did conflicted with what she thought was correct, she would sit down and "help me correct it" because I think she seemed to think it was I guess an autism thing or something, which meant she spent a lot of time (usually taking me out of lunch break) trying to "correct" whatever she thought I was doing wrong. Which was exasperated by the fact I was an expat from the Commonwealth and she was an American so half the time they were just, cultural things. My dialect? Incorrect stop being non-rhotic and dropping your Ts. Handwriting? Oh dear this isn't D'nealian you're going to have to relearn this. Needed something repeated because I didn't hear it? Let's sit down and go through each step one by one in simple English so you can understand it. Social issues were the worst because she'd try to explain how to be friends with someone like I was five and try and push me into other people's friend groups when I did not want to do that.
I know she wasn't being malicious and like, she was right - I did have a neurological disorder, and she was the only person who noticed before it actually started affecting me negatively. But oh my god she was so condescending and made me feel like I was so stupid and absolutely fucked my handwriting. Also people noticed the attention she gave me and made fun of being for being "retarded" which was fun.
That's horrible of her. Don't try to justify it.
Most teachers don't know that children would think of OP like that. She just wanted to help him, I don't see how that shouldn't be justified.
I think she did it to bully OP to not be popular so she could control him.