Depends on which class lol. My art teachers thought I was a dream, math and english not so much.
Wow, I never took art seriously (was always screwing around), but was always great at math (at least when I wasn’t lazy).
Yes
Applied self and stop day dreaming. It also didn’t help I had two older brothers who were known trouble makers. So by the time I got to school the teachers’ perception of me was already skewed. For the most part I just fell through the cracks and was pushed on to get rid of me. I graduated eighth grade with straight Fs.
Quiet and polite in class. Bored because she can do the work. Once I was unable to coast, they got mean.
I think my whole report card the entire time i was in elementary was NEEDS TO APPLY HIMSELF MORE.
Yep you could play bingo with it on my report cards!
Both. You’d get different answers from different teachers.
Teachers who knew their shit and were flexible, would say the former.
Teachers who were authoritatian and barely knew enough of their field to pass minimum standards for teaching would claim I was “lazy” or “obstinate”.
I was gifted, pleasant to teach, and distracted the teachers by asking tangential questions that were interesting enough for them to answer, thus derailing the entire class. One teacher actually put that in my report card and complained about it to my parents.
The first one ☺️ and I still like being called a good boy to this day 😇
Both lol. In elementary school I got very good grades and teachers really liked me. Except the ones that minded that I was constantly writing stories and drawing during lessons.
I got scolded often for not paying attention (who cares, I’m getting good grades, let me do my thing!!!) and some teachers would even confiscate my writings and drawings to keep me from being distracted.
One teacher especially didn’t like that I could not pay attention in class and still get good grades. She took away a story I had been working on for a while and never gave it back. I still get mad when I think about it.
Eugenia, if you’re reading this, I will never forgive you!!! >:(
That’s a pretty shitty thing to do to a child
I was definitely the latter, I was a disgrace to the school, would never amount to anything etc. Always underachieving and was blamed for it
the second for sure. once a year there’d be that teacher who’d try to connect and it always went the same way. they’d assume i was feeling insecure about my ability and statements like “i hate touching this paper” or “grades are meaningless nonsense” were part of that. they needle me until i said fine and did a weeks worth of class material in one sitting. then they go “oh see this is amazing you’d be a straight A student if you applied yourself”. meanwhile my stress level is at an 11 from all the tactile sensery hell. and from that point on i’d just ditch their class.
If you were a teacher and were trying to get the best outcomes for kids like you, what would you do?
my son is in a great communication and interaction program with dedicated space inside the school. lots of sensory adaptive tools and quiet areas. theres awareness that some of the kids just dont care about being praised, but making the content contextually relavent and assuming they have the self awareness to decide does work. though praise definitely works with my son. had a lot of really interesting discussions with his teacher. i may very well have had a wildy different experiance if that space had existed 30 years ago. at the time all that i wanted was to do self paced remote classes where i could submit everything via computer. which by highschool was an option. but at that time the only goal was me in a gen-ed classroom with my behavior adjusted to make everyone else around me comfotable. allowing me to do what would work for me was seen as failure by everyone making decisions.
for the tactile part specifically. e-readers, stone paper for writing and terraslate if i need printed materials. have significantly improved my life.
“Not working up to his potential.” From the teachers in the gifted program I got bussed across town to attend.
Somehow both simultaneously
Good multi tasking! I approve
First one, then depression kicked in and I was neither
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