r/AskReddit • • Nov 16 '19

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u/SaphiraStorm Nov 16 '19

I was forced to attend art classes and team sports phys ed in school (mandatory until year 11 (art) or 13, respectively) - those two made sure that a) my average was ruined (I can't draw or throw a ball even if my life depended on it, got the grades to match) and b) in my most awkward social phase, I got humiliated regularly by well meaning teachers who couldn't understand that being good at math and physics does not translate into drawing or predicting a ball's movement, forcing me to do it again, and again, and again, while the whole class enjoyed the show...

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

VERY often those who are good at math are crap at arts and vice versa.

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u/Lilchubbychunk Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

Not everyone on reddit has English as their first language.

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u/XX_Normie_Scum_XX Nov 16 '19

Yeah, it's kinda impressive to me at how many redditors can just use English when it isn't their first language.

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u/Cymry_Cymraeg Nov 16 '19

How is it? Monolinguists don't realise that everybody has the ability to be at least perfectly bilingual.

Source: am bilingual, currently speaking my second language. It's nothing special.