A few years ago I realized
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conulythat 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.
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.
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Date: 2024-10-21 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-21 06:01 am (UTC)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)
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Date: 2024-10-21 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-21 06:03 am (UTC)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)
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Date: 2024-10-21 06:05 am (UTC)and had to stop running and start walking