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My 7 year old son was shot down by his 1st grade teacher

is this to kill a mockingbird

this is literally to kill a mockingbird right here

once again, showing us that school is only about following directions and passing, and not about learning

Story time!!! When I was in kindergarten, I had a calendar thingy that said the names of the months in cursive. I thought that looked cool, so I decided to teach it to myself. I got most of the letters right except for the ‘s’, which I literally drew triangles for. I wrote my name on my paper at school, not even one that was to be turned in and graded, it was on a picture I colored. My teacher looked over my shoulder and was like ‘you can’t write cursive yet. You’ll learn that in third grade. You’re doing it wrong anyway.’ Literally instead of taking 1 minute to teach me how to do it correctly, she told me not to do it.

Also, one time in 4th grade I said something about negative numbers and my teacher flat-out told me negative numbers don’t exist. And yelled at me for confusing the other kids. I kept my mouth shut during math after that

In first grade, my teacher didn’t believe that I could read, she thought I was just “decoding” the sounds of the letters and I didn’t actually know what the words meant. So she would send me home with these little books about helicopters or other random shit and then have me write what they were about to like prove to her that I could read or something. Even the principal was on her side. My mom was super pissed and the next year I switched schools. Fuck teachers who think that six year old girls can’t read. I’m almost completely convinced that she wouldn’t have done the same thing to a six year old boy.

I started learning to read in pre-k and was above my age in reading level (you know those kids books that say the reading level on them or whatever) , and apparently on like, the third day of kindergarten I came home crying because my teacher said it would be weird for a kindergarten girl to be reading above a certain level. I came home crying and said I don’t wanna read those books anymore because I don’t want to be weird

My 3rd grade reading teacher BANNED me from going to the library because I “wasn’t reading my books”. She would make me wait for the days in which our class would go all together. I’m a very fast reader and currently go to the library at my school almost every day.

I took Spanish one at my old school and then moved schools, forcing me to retake the class. This wasn’t so bad, but when I started using verbs we hadn’t learned yet my teacher told me that I wasn’t allowed to speak Spanish anymore during class. No Spanish in my freaking Spanish class.

In seventh grade I was told to use “simpler vocabulary” because my teacher was under the impression that the language I used in my paper would be “to difficult for the other kids to understand”. Essentially she told me to dumb down my work.

Heeeeey sorry to derail but can we please stop with the “here’s a bad experience that proves that teachers are soulless monster trying to make us special snowflakes to conform bc we’re too sparkly and good for them?” Bc there are a TON of other issues with public education, and I’m getting p tired of this one being heralded as the worst.

(heaven forbid the teacher tell you to stop being a show off and work within a group w kids why may not be on your level)

But that’s not what those teachers were doing. They weren’t saying “please work with your group”. They were saying “you aren’t allowed to know this”. I had a teacher who used to go through all my papers, telling me that someday, she’d catch me cheating. Too bad for her that I cheated by studying.

Most teachers are supportive of eager learners, but bad teachers teach that knowledge is forbidden and inquisitiveness is socially disruptive. Teachers like that make the jobs of good teachers harder because you only have to have gone a year being hounded for being ahead before you learn to give up. Reinspiring a student is extremely difficult.

I think the other part is that sometimes it can be racially motivated with some white teachers and administrators being gatekeepers to special classes or making POC students feel inferior. Lord knows my parents had to fight on me and my sibling’s behalves. 

I hope the parents of this child spoke with the teacher (assuming this was a real event) about this because at face value it seems unnecessary. 

Dude, nobody’s saying it’s the “worst”. Just that it exists. Also, -10 Internets for using “special snowflake” unironically.

i still remember my freshman year when one of my teachers asked me what i wanted to do be when i grew up and i almost immidately responded with “i want to be a college english professor” and she clicked her tongue at me and said it was too ‘lofty’ of a goal for someone my age and said I should think of something more ‘realistic’ to be. Thanks to her, my sophomore year I dropped it to high school level, then junior year it dropped to elementary school level.

Back when I was in the first grade I would make my twos with the little loops and my teacher told my mom that I needed to stop using “cursive numbers”, and so I had it in my mind up until about early last school year/late two years ago that making them like that was bad.

I definitely got shit like this in my early school years. In Kindergarten I made my 8s as a single loop and the teacher condescended to me for trying to write ‘like a grownup’ and told me to use two stacked circles like the rest of the kids.