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[โ€“] rtxn@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

My English-as-second-language teacher hated me because I kept correcting her spelling and vocabulary. But it was okay because I hated her right back and took every opportunity to annoy her (for the sake of rigorous accuracy, of course). Fortunately she couldn't actually harm or sabotage me because I aced almost all of my tests and had good scores in national ESL competitions, and a sudden drop in grades would likely have been too obvious.

The point where I'd had enough was a test about the anatomy of vehicles. She had crossed out my answer to "left side of a ship" because I'd written port or larboard (not that I expected someone with a master's diploma to know the etymology of nautical terms*, or not to confuse larboard with starboard because they looked similar), but what made my blood fucking boil was when she crossed out my answers of hood and trunk because I'd used the American words instead of the British bonnet and boot, and when I pointed out that she'd marked those same answers as correct in others' tests, she went back and fucking changed the scores on the other tests. I told her it was "deplorable conduct for a teacher" (approximate translation, and as polite as I was going to get that day) and she dragged me to the principal for disrupting the class.

That was the third year of high school (I think "junior" is the American equivalent). I took an option to graduate one year early from ESL, in part out of spite. I'm sure she was glad to be rid of me.

* I knew "larboard" and "starboard" and the names of individual sails from Assassin's Creed 4. Much of my vocabulary comes from games (including some Russian from STALKER, Metro, and MGSV).

edit: A resurfaced memory! Still regarding sailing -- she thought "in distress" meant that things were calm and safe because "di-stress" was the opposite of "stress". I swear I'm not making this shit up!

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[โ€“] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I had a kindergarten teacher try teaching syllables by clapping them out while saying the word: ๐Ÿ‘ ALL ๐Ÿ‘ I ๐Ÿ‘ GATOR! Alligator! ๐Ÿ‘ ALL ๐Ÿ‘ I ๐Ÿ‘ GATOR! Three syllables.

Tried correcting her, she just clapped and said gator again.

[โ€“] JollyG@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I saw someone do this in teaching program evaluation materials once. Except the teacher did it with the word brown and stretched it into three syllables.

Br ๐Ÿ‘ ow ๐Ÿ‘ uh ๐Ÿ‘ n.

I remember thinking to myself "America is doomed." Sometimes I still think about that teacher when I see people get tilted over dumb, made-up shit on social media and turn into reactionary morons around election time. Br ๐Ÿ‘ ow ๐Ÿ‘ uh ๐Ÿ‘ n. America is doomed.

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[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

The autistic experience summarized

[โ€“] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 23 points 2 days ago

Absolutely not fake, nor gay

[โ€“] Blubber28@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fucking hell I feel validated rn, I had a similar experience at that age but it was in language/reading class. It's so frustrating to know that you are correct but you lack the terminology/ability to properly convey why you are right.

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[โ€“] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I would understand "unsolvable" or something but 0 just hurts. Later you learn to specify "within natural numbers" and it's totally reasonable to stay within the number range you have learned so far and it would be fine to tell the kid "you're not wrong but let's keep it simple". Just don't teach things they have to unlearn later.

My brother was in a similar situation where he said the square root of -1 is i and the teacher was impressed and it was discussed as a positive thing at home

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[โ€“] Randelung@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the American "educational' industrial complex, I know it well. It's also fond of literally leaving behind and moving on from and kids who are struggling, like happened to me in math. Then I got in trouble because my abusive, alcoholic mother thought I was slacking off. Therapy is your friend. So are antidepressants to keep me from killing myself, but that's only tangentially related.

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[โ€“] LifeLemons@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago

This happened to me in 6 grade and the teacher was like annoyed bruh when I confidently raised hand to give a more accurate answer. Maybe she thought I was showing off the way she reacted

School really does prepare you for real life sometimes, it seems ...

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