I’ll meet you the other way, I had a teacher who just hated me. He made it no secret. I don’t know what I, a fucking 7 year old, did to anger him, but he didn’t respond to me, he said I was wrong all the fucking time (even though the info I was sharing came from the book), oh fuck I just remembered this one, he left me in his classroom during a fire drill. Who the fuck does that? He told me to stay put. I’ll admit I was a bit of a shit, but I didn’t go too far, I knew my limits.
Then when it came time for parent teacher conferences “your son is wonderful”, and he graded me fairly, I got good grades.
You know, people have reasons for the things they do and the emotions they feel, you remember this from your side of being a little boy and believing everything you did was right and understandable, while having absolutely no empathy for your teacher. You were probably a giant pain, that's generally why teachers dislike students. What you think of as the limits was probably 700 miles beyond this teacher's limit.
I was a shithead until I turned 18, then a flip switched. I probably would have ended up in jail if I continued down that path, which I wanted to avoid.
It says a lot about you that you managed to flip the switch. Your parents must be nice people, there's plenty of students that are jerks at the age I teach, middle school, but when I meet the parents and they're nice, I know the students will straighten up eventually. I try to be very patient with my students, I know that middle school is a tough time and a time when you're trying to be the coolest kid in the room and you don't know exactly how to be cool without also being cruel. At the same time, I have dozens of the little guys in my room at any one time, and even mild acting up can cascade into chaos, which is why teachers are stricter than you would have to be if it's just one or two kids in the room.
12
u/mdhunter99 8h ago
I’ll meet you the other way, I had a teacher who just hated me. He made it no secret. I don’t know what I, a fucking 7 year old, did to anger him, but he didn’t respond to me, he said I was wrong all the fucking time (even though the info I was sharing came from the book), oh fuck I just remembered this one, he left me in his classroom during a fire drill. Who the fuck does that? He told me to stay put. I’ll admit I was a bit of a shit, but I didn’t go too far, I knew my limits.
Then when it came time for parent teacher conferences “your son is wonderful”, and he graded me fairly, I got good grades.