Breaking down and crying in the classroom

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one time my teacher wanted to see me after class because of a low grade. i had always sucked in math. its very difficult for me to understand. and even if i can grasp it, i will forget it the next day.
anyways this teacher was angry at me, and started getting mean, THEN she started getting mad at me for a fricken doodle on my arm..and other unrelated stuff. i just started crying. she certainly wasnt expecting THAT! she was not a very well liked teacher by me, after that incident. and before that she had humiliated me in front of the class by spending a whole several minutes talking about how i was lazy and refused to try to do maths...in FRONT of the class. i didnt answer her question she had asked me in the first place because i didnt hear it. and i didnt hear it the second time she said it....the words didnt register...so i sheepishly had said i didnt know.
that was in 9th grade, by the way.

That sounds like a fellow student from elementary! He tended to forget stuff and space out. His social skills were bad (I don't think they were worse than mine, but I had the advantage of being a shy female...), and the teacher didn't like him and would always try to make an example of him, calling him lazy. On an open house day, I ended up waiting outside the classroom door with him and his mother for my parents to leave from their conference with the teacher. She causally (she didn't seem to be mad at him) made disparaging remarks about him to me, right in front of him!

I've always tended to break down at school, before because of morbid sensitivity, but more recently also from academic stress. (I love high school.) The "episodes" seem to scare the faculty, hehe. It's gradually become less common, but I think that it will be a long time before I have the control over my emotions that other teenagers take for granted. I've never had an actual panic attack at school, though. I imagine that it would be a really traumatic experience. Did everyone in this thread mean "panic attack" in the literal sense?

I have always been a crier, though it's not as much of a problem as it was in childhood. I have cried at work, too; the last time was when I was working at a nuclear plant with nothing but gruff rednecks. It embarrasses me when it happens in public (with the whole being a grown man thing and all), but it doesn't bother me when I'm alone; it is cathartic.

I've broken down in class, many times. One time that stands out was when I was giving a speech to my grade 10 English class. I could tell that I didn't do a good job, or that I wasn't popular, because those stupid classmates of mine applauded in a slow and sarcastic way. The shy, socially awkward one with the London accent ran out of the classroom, bawling her eyes out. Nobody cared to look for me. I knew that everybody in that class hated me.

awww, poor dude. i can relate! what do you think was wrong with him?

and i have had a panic attack in english class....the real, several hour long "omg i seriously want to kill myself" kind...it really feels like you are gonna die.

They say that high school years are supposed to be the best years of our lives. I think they were lying.

why did she break down crying because of your speech?
i hate giving bad speeches. i literally physically cant do them. the symptoms are too severe. at least my teachers usually let me present privately, though.

really? :O i heard it was college. my highschool hasnt been fun at all.