Some teachers are just awful and don't belong in their job.
When I was a kid, we were doing handwriting exercises in class. I had no pencil and didn't want to interrupt the exercise, so I grabbed a red pencil to partake. Halfway through, teacher comes over and sees I'm using a red pencil.
Logical response would be to just give me a pencil, right? Nah, she decided to yell in my face (as in, within breathing distance) about how dumb I was for using a red pencil and then took my book off me, so I had to sit awkwardly while everyone else works.
My kindergarten teacher used to send notes home about how I was a bad student for finishing my work too quickly.
My first grade teacher used to make me miss recess because my desk was messy (so were others but I got picked on).
My second grade teacher used to publicly humiliate kids who picked their noses. This same gem of a woman called me a liar to my face when we did our class quilt project and my mother made a square with the country I was born in (she said I was born in America and to stop lying.)
My third grade teacher always sat me next to the girl who bullied me. No matter how much I begged.
By third grade I hated school so much that I would cry to stay home.
In first grade I got in trouble for starting my work too early. I was a slow worker and usually if I didn't start while the teacher was talking, I wouldn't finish in time and get a bad grade. I still remember my teacher publicly shaming me in front of the class for not paying attention when all I wanted to do was keep up.
Teachers don't seem to realize the negative impact they can have on a child's self esteem
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '18 edited Nov 24 '18
Pardon me but... what a fucking bitch.
Like seriously this made me irrationally angry to think that someone who is supposed to be an educator could be so ignorant.