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timtom gets hacked i've been incredibly
lucky that pretty much every teacher
I've ever had was great there were a
handful that I didn't get along with but
it was never anything too bad except in
one instance one of my elementary school
teachers completely ruined school for me
teachers are such a big part of kids
lives and I don't think she handled my
education with nearly enough care now
this was a long time ago and I'm hopeful
that by now she doesn't have this effect
on students anymore
but I wasn't articulate enough in the
sixth grade to properly express just how
awful she made me feel so I'm gonna do
past me a solid and have a little rant
about my least favorite teacher strap in
folks my school had this program called
gate which stands for gifted and
talented education every now and then a
gate teacher would make their way around
every classroom and scoop up the gate
kids to go
I don't know play with tangrams for an
hour eventually the school decided that
regularly interrupting classes wasn't a
great idea
so they created the 4/5 combo class
about a dozen kids each from the fourth
and fifth grades would go share a
classroom and have an accelerated
curriculum year round the next year that
group of kids stayed with the same
teacher and became the 5/6 combo class
and the next next year when the sixth
graders went off to junior high the
younger kids took their place at the top
of the class
a new wave of fifth graders joined I
entered the gate program with that
initial group of 4th graders which means
that I was in the combo class for three
years usually if you have a teacher that
you don't get along with you only have
to deal with them for one year but I had
the worst teacher I've ever had for
three years if that doesn't deserve a
rant I don't know what does let's call
her mrs. Kay for Karen you know the type
I've talked to a handful of kids from
the combo class in the Year sense and
it's not like I've been scientific with
my data collection but the pattern that
I've noticed is that all the girls seem
to have loved her and all the guys
seemed to have hated her I don't know
what that means but I detect bias the
combo class had two teachers and when we
needed to split up for grade specific
things our other teacher would take the
older kids let's call her mrs. a for
awesome so during the final year in the
class I would occasionally get a break
from the ever-present dread that mrs. K
caused like a glass of water in the
Sahara Desert that might be a little
dramatic but that's how I felt and you
know what just because you're young
doesn't mean your feelings aren't real
mrs. K was an adult in a position of
extreme power she got to decide if we
could go to the bathroom or not more
than anything it was her responsibility
to be like hey I feel like we're not
getting along what can we do to build
trust but instead she straight-up
bullied me until I cried on several
occasions spilled soda all over my copy
of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
and then denied it even though I watched
her and was just generally mean for
three years for example one time near
the end of the school year mrs. a
planned a little after-school
celebration
she took everyone's order for McDonald's
during the day and then that evening we
all came back to the school ate dinner
and had a little party told you she was
awesome all of the kids trickled in and
were sitting in a circle talking
everyone was pretty loud but this was
uncharted territory an empty school meat
so when mrs. a tried to get everyone's
attention they just didn't hear her but
when she went to stand up and talk
louder mrs. K stopped her I was sitting
right next to them so I could hear mrs.
K say something to the effect of nope
just wait they'll figure it out
she was deliberately telling mrs. a to
be passive aggressive who does that even
as a kid that seemed obviously dumb so I
did what I still think is one of the
most mature things I've ever done it was
time for project get their attention
dotnet I shouted hey everybody and about
half of the kids looked at me now as a
kid who grew up pretty poor I was always
told to pay attention to how much things
cost when I ordered food at restaurants
I was keenly aware of the fact that mrs.
a had just spent at least 40
thousand dollars to buy nuggets and
burgers for the entire class I said
something like it's cool that mrs. a
took everyone's favorite orders and
brought us all McDonald's how many
teachers would do that so I think she
deserves a round of applause and when
half of the kids started clapping the
rest joined in and started paying
attention to I love it when a plan comes
together
then I said something like now we need
to be quiet so mrs. egg can pass all our
food out because I don't know about you
but I'm hungry I don't think mrs. K
appreciated being shown up by a literal
child but maybe that wouldn't have
happened if she wasn't deliberately
being passive-aggressive one time I
wrote a story about how a kid was having
a bad day and their teacher made it
worse by being Petty and mean I wonder
where I got the idea this wasn't for an
assignment or anything I just wrote it
for fun but when I was done I was so
excited that I had finished a full story
that I showed it to mrs. a but mrs. K
ended up reading it too and it was
pretty obviously about her which she
didn't like instead of doing the
responsible thing and using this
opportunity to see things from my
perspective and perhaps taking a moment
to think about what she could do on her
side to build some trust and form a
healthier and more productive
relationship with one of her students
she got real mad and called a
parent-teacher conference so my mom and
I sat down with her one day after school
and she went through all of the things
that really concerned her but it was
clear that she was just personally
offended for being called out luckily my
mom was like yeah I don't see any
problem here there was something that
happened that my friends and I didn't
handle well but instead of talking to
everyone involved and maybe teaching us
how we could have handled it better like
a teacher is supposed to mrs. K chose to
humiliate my friend group in front of
the entire class there were about six of
us who had become pretty close friends
basically we'd always hang out at recess
and ask each other really deep
philosophical questions like wouldn't it
be weird if milk was green but then we'd
realize that it wouldn't because if milk
was green then fat would be normal and
white milk would be weird Wow one time I
used the phrase personal space bubble
and someone thought the word bubble was
particularly funny for some reason I
can't remember exactly how it happened
but it became an inside joke and before
long we ended up just calling our group
the bubble but it turns out that names
are a powerful thing and after a few
months the entire class knew that we had
one and they wanted in we never set out
to be exclusionary it was just an inside
joke that other kids overheard so when
someone who none of us knew very well
came up at lunch and asked if he could
join the bubble it was like that's
not really how this works he just wanted
to make friends but it was a question
that we hadn't even considered and for
lack of a more thoughtful response we
kind of just awkwardly told him no that
rejection really upset him especially
after he must have worked up the courage
to come ask us in the first place
so he went crying to mrs. K instead of
taking us aside and talking to us about
what happened in private she called us
out in front of the entire class she
said something to the effect of I've
been hearing all about the bubble for
months and now I understand that you're
going around and telling kids that they
can't be in it then I'll never forget
that she pointed at me and said I'm
popping the bubble what does that even
mean she didn't talk through things with
us and set reasonable expectations she
was just like yep I popped the bubble
problem solved if she had taken the time
to understand what was really going on
then she could have helped us work
through a better way to handle it and
set a good example for the class but no
she singled us out in front of everyone
and set a terrible example now how am I
supposed to be a good person sorry for
hitting so mad
let's end this on a high note bye
you