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1:34am July 31, 2015

chavisory:

elodieunderglass:

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cribbagematch:

one time in sixth grade i did my math homework and then because i was excited that i had grasped the lesson so well, i did the next day’s homework too

the next day in class i told my teacher, and she looked constipated for a second, and then said dismissively, “well, then you’re not very good at following directions, are you.”

#I identify strongly with this #I got reprimanded on multiple ocasions for reading ahead and/or already having knowledge
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Cause tags are truth. Maaan ,that one time a teacher stole my encyclopedia cause it proved her wrong.

when I was eight and in public school, we could do a report based on any historical character who had a book about them in the school library.
I picked Harriet Tubman because Harriet Tubman, and I wrote about how her master had thrown an anvil at her head, leaving her with a permanent dent in her forehead. I know that the anvil part was definitely in the school library book.
My teacher circled the word “anvil” and took off points.
“I HAVE SPELLED ANVIL CORRECTLY,” I roared in tiny confrontation.
“No,” she said, and it transpired that she didn’t know or care that “anvil” is a word or that “anvils” are a thing.
And so despite my helpful attempts to explain what anvils were, including references to blacksmiths and the Roadrunner, I had points taken off OH MY GOD.
YES, I AM STILL MAD ABOUT THIS TWENTY YEARS LATER.
FUCK YOU, LADY. YOU ARE DOUBTLESSLY DEAD BY NOW AND I HOPE YOU KNOW YOUR STUDENTS STILL HATE YOU.
ANVILS ARE A THING.

By 7th grade I was pretending not to know words that I did if I didn’t want to hear something snide from a teacher about answering questions “in my own words.”

When people put their egos before your education, jfc
In first grade I picked up a book about bees and learned that bees keep their young in some parts of the honeycomb cells, so I enthusiastically told my teacher that. And he was like, “No.” And I kept arguing because look, I had the book right in front of me and I had JUST read it, and he started squeezing my shoulder and hissing through his teeth, because he could just not let me believe I was right about something he didn’t know. The book was in his own damn class, he could have read it.

I once had a French test where we had to translate French sentences into English.

Every time I wrote the word “no” in English, the French teacher (who spoke French as her first language) “corrected” it by writing “non” in a red pen and marking me wrong. Which turned out to be quite a bit of questions marked wrong, so that I got a fairly low grade on the test.

I wrote an explanation that in French it’s spelled non but in English it’s spelled no and that I did nothing wrong in spelling it no in the context of English.

I got in major trouble, was called out of class and had it explained to me that I was “condescending” and “rude” and “hostile” for explaining such a thing to a teacher, who should be an authority figure, and all sorts of other weird bullshit. They never paid any attention to the fact that she graded the test completely wrong, they made it all about me having a bad attitude. That was one of many times in my life where I got in trouble for not noticing and/or responding with subservience to social hierarchies. This response from authority figures has not stopped. They perceive hostility where none exists, just for not showing deference.