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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.

Jesus, I got the “why did you read ahead?” reprimand so much as a kid. BECAUSE I ENJOY READING AND BEING PROACTIVE. SORRY.

My sixth grade teacher hated me because I knew more about Greek mythology than she did, she taught us this whole unit on Greek mythology, and she was talking about the heroes and said something about Odysseus, and I raised my hand and politely corrected her, and she just stared at me and was like, “How do you know that?” and I said, “Because I’ve read the Odyssey.” and she got so mad and told me that there was no way a twelve year old could have read the Odyssey and I just…pulled it out of my backpack and showed her the passage that backed up what I’d been talking about and she didn’t call on me for the rest of the year, and this was in like November. She had a talk with me about reading levels and how I shouldn’t be reading above my level because I wouldn’t understand the books and I had to explain to her that I’d been in advanced reading levels since kindergarten, and I certainly wasn’t going to stop being an advanced reader now…

I got this treatment just a few weeks ago!  FROM UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION.  AT A SELECTIVE LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOL THAT PRIDES ITSELF ON THE QUALITY OF ITS STUDENTS, OF WHICH I AM ONE.

Long story short, I have to transfer in one last class to get my diploma.  I walked in graduation, but they haven’t given me the actual paper, so I’m still bound to them.  The transfer paperwork process can be time-consuming and I needed to register for my online class before the deadline closed, so I contacted the Dean of Students to ask if she could essentially ‘pre-approve’ the course - IE, tell me in her estimation if it would pass muster - for the requirement I need to meet.  This, to me, seemed like a simple process.

She did not think it was a simple process.  And she made sure that it would not be.

After several rounds of emails in which I asked for help and she shunted me away in polite terms (thanks, school I chose for teacher-student engagement, thanks bunches) we got to the point where she asked me to write up a description of how the course met the requirements.  I looked over the syllabus I had requested from the course’s professor, looked over the official requirement description, and wrote a paragraph using several buzzwords from the description to highlight my points..

I got a very snippy email back explaining that she could look up the course description herself if she wanted, but what I needed to do was to write an explanation “in my own words”.

(I broke down sobbing when I got that email, because this entire process I’d just been getting yanked around and no one, no one at all at the school I’ve paid tuition to for four years had been helpful.)

With my mom’s help I wrote an entire new description, this time broken down into subheadings according to the requirement.  I got a two-sentence response saying that this was what she’d wanted all along.  (Prior to this I had asked her to give me more information on what she wanted and she’d essentially told me just to write a paragraph.)

TL;DR:  They don’t stop doing this, even when you’re an adult in your own right, and no degree of professionalism on your part will stop them.

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