To my 3rd grade teacher:
Something about you has haunted me. When I first came here, I was clueless, unaware of what I was getting into. You made me do a test on the first day that I understood nothing on. I was super nervous. I don't remember why, but you yelled at me when I turned the test in, and said that you just told us not to turn it in. You made me cry in the front of the whole class on my very first day, and shocked, I denied everything you did.
I felt like I was the only one who cared. Everyone else didn't care when you took our pencils, the ones my mom paid a lot for just so I could recognize which ones were mine. You said you just "borrowed" them. I knew I was stolen from, and an alarm of anger and shock sounded in my brain. You also stole my scissors.
And that was just the first day. Shocked and stuck inside myself, I laughed it off and acted like everything was okay.
The day when I called out your BS. I thought it was unfair and wrong, from the very beginning, that you announced everyone's "reading levels" to the whole class, and told us that we could only pick books from our "grade level". I don't know if anyone else cared, but it seemed strange to me, and now angering. First of all, why were you so determined to classify us based on your first impressions, and act like we could only read certain books? People should be able to read what they enjoy. I often read "below my level" (I'm talking children's books, when I should be reading Shakespeare according to tests) because I enjoy reading them, and they are much more relatable and sometimes funny. (And I can actually understand the words, that's a bonus) Anyways, I thought it was wrong to tell us how "smart we were" to the whole class. That also made little me feel like I had to compete to be the smartest, and I'm sure everyone else felt the same. That's when, according to records, I asked you why I was being forced to read with the dumb kids. Now, older me wouldn't say that directly to your face, to not be a jerk, but back then my true personality still was there, and I didn't give a s**t what you thought. Apparently, I was the first kid to "figure out your system" (orange meant easy, blue meant intermediate, and green meant advanced). It all started when first, due to your narrow interpretations of the class you had given to me, I knew who was "dumb and smart". I also knew naturally, by how they behaved and my natural ability to recognize things in people. For some reason, they had "Lexile range" on the back of the books in fine text. Analyzing this, with all my evidence, I knew 100% for sure what was going on, and I wished to be put in the advanced group. You told my mom about this, and she didn't think it was all that genius that I had figured it out. It was quite obvious. She said that I was probably the first to not be scared to say it out loud.
Sorry if that seemed mean. I just had to put this somewhere. -"Cora"