A few years ago I realized

[conuly]

that I had the biggest problem in school with my English teachers. A truly disproportionate number of them simply didn't like me, way more than all other subject teachers.

If I'd figured this out in college or high school or middle school I'd probably be over it by now, but I didn't and since I did figure it out every once in a while I am struck by the question - "seriously, but why?"

If it was all subject teachers equally I'd say maybe it was me, and that's fair, I didn't do any actual work most of the time because reasons. But no, most of my other teachers got along with me just fine, or at least were willing to be professional about it. But man, some of my English teachers seem to have actually had a grudge against me or some shit, with the exception of the sonnet one, who was just incompetent. (Seriously, who has kids read their work aloud without pre-checking it first to make sure they aren't cheerfully and very obviously insulting their classmates? I can't even be mad at him, he was just terrible at teaching.)

I wish I'd realized it sooner or else never. I won't be able to get any answers to this mystery now, of course, and it just bugs me.

Comments

[lilysea]

Huh, interesting.

I usually got on GREAT with my English teachers,

but all my PE teachers hated me because I was clumsy/uncoordinated.

[greenwoodside]

Yes, this was me. Still fond memories of the English teachers. Still dimly hate at a distance one particular PE teacher (and all school PE).

[conuly]

Don't get me wrong, I didn't enjoy gym class, but I never had a problem with the teachers. Or with my classmates, either - not in gym, anyway.

[conuly]

I was super uncoordinated and also gyms were vastly overstimulating to me, but my gym teachers all thought I was an exciting challenge, I guess. Never had trouble with them!

[lilysea]

One PE teacher yelled at me really harshly all lesson for not throwing the ball right in softball/T ball

and then when I ***finally*** managed to throw the ball it went straight at the teacher

who was very VERY pregnant and sitting in a folding chair right behind the catcher

and hit her in the stomach

and the teacher refused to believe that it was an accident

(it genuinely was an accident, I was nowhere near coordinated enough to have done it on purpose, it was all I could do to get the ball vaguely within hitting distance of the bat)

[conuly]

Well, they all absolutely sound lovely.

[lilysea]

A different PE teacher gave me a world of grief for wearing a tshirt over my bathers in swimming lessons because

a) I sunburned very easily

b) I was being bullied about my body by other kids

and the teacher was like "if you're ashamed of your body, you shouldn't wear a tshirt, you should lose weight!!!"

While I was considered fat by the other kids, I wasn't actually over my recommended weight/height

(this was during the time of Callista Flockhart and Kate Moss)

[lilysea]

And then there were all the PE teachers who yelled at me when I got a stitch or ran out of breath while running laps

and had to stop running and start walking