Two truths and a lie

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It was 1973 and yes, she was evil. The worst was having the girls laugh at me like a group of little sharks.

Prior to that experience I had attended Sunday School and my parents made me quit because of a row with the teacher. I suppose I connected the two, and didn't want to have to quit "real" school.

I'm sorry you had to go through this crap.

Teachers got physical with me a couple of times; I don't remember the precise details, though.


1. I got thrown out of Science class at least 75% of the time in 7th and 8th grade.

2. I had a hearing wherein I had to agree to certain conditions in order not to be expelled from school.

3. I threw a big temper tantrum for getting a 96 on a math test in 7th grade.

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I think my experience left more of an imprint than I've ever realised.


1. The teacher spent most of the year trying to be extra nice to me, but I knew not to trust her. She was inherently fake. I remember noting her anxiety whenever she said hello to my parents, because she was worried I may have told them.

2. The teacher's name was something very ironic, implying that she was kind.

3. I recently conducted enough research on this teacher to confirm that she died five years ago.

4. The teacher kind of forced me to play dolls and 'house' with the other girls instead of playing with the train. I had my first shut down at the 'house' play centre because I was afraid of the girls.

She died longer than five years ago.

She died on January 2, 1999 and yes, I know the irony of that as well.

1. I had another problem with her when I didn't remember the difference between "silver" and "gold". I always got pairs of words like that mixed up. To this day I think of her when I think of silver or gold.

2. My favourite teacher was when I was seven, because she let me read by myself on a yellow carpet. I read "The Gift of the Magi" in her class while watching a snow storm.

3. My mean teacher had a beehive hairdo and she was wearing cat-eye glasses with a chain in all of my photos.

I sense it's #1. I don't sense you have this sort of problem.

1 is true. I had a serious problem with pairs of words like gold & silver, eyebrow & eyelash, brush & comb, shelf & drawer, etc.

I got them mixed up all the time.

2 is my lie because I was nine when that happened.

3 is true.

1. This gay male teacher really liked the boys in my 7th grade class.

2. I got a 50 in English during my 2nd marking period of 7th grade.

3. I had a crush on my English teacher in 8th grade, and got an 85 during the first marking period.

3. You had a crush on her because English instructors are fantastic people. But, you didn't get 85.

The Lie is #1. The gay male English teacher totally doted on the girls.

I did get an 85. I might have gotten a 90 in my next marking period.

1. The highest grade I ever received was in Senior French.

2. The lowest grade I ever received was in Chemistry.

3. The hardest class I took in Uni (besides Anthropology) was Political Theory, which was essentially Philosophy.

I'm thinking #2. You're sensitive to the scents of chemistry....

2 is my lie. My lowest achievement was in Biology because I refused to dissect and I cut a lot of classes (note the play on words?)

I'd probably would have had lots of trouble with dissecting myself.

1. My first paleoanthropological mentor was Louis Leakey.

2. I learned about him in junior high school.

3. His son, Richard, was a Kenyan politician in addition to being a paleoanthropologist. He dropped out of school at age 16.

I would have had difficulty 'dissecting myself' as well

1 is very clearly your lie! (He wasn't your mentor IRL).

The Lie is #2. I learned about him in 6th grade, when I went to the Museum of Natural History.

I guess he wasn't my direct mentor---but I looked up to Louis Leakey. I thought he was the main guy looking for the Missing Link.