What did your teachers say about you?

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My teachers always hated me, talked poorly about me and my mother behind our backs, and were always trying to find reasons to down me. They made up everything they could to say I was doing wrong, so it's hard to tell what I did do wrong.

It made me very vindictive.

well... my second grade teacher said that I was "not a bad kid just talkitive" thats all i know for sure.

In the sixth grade I got a D on a book report, after fighting an f, because the teacher said that a child couldn't have written that.

Whatever

Oh yeah, in grade 1 my teacher said I needed practise printing (I mean by heand, I don't mean computer printing).


Also, once in grade 3 we were doing this math challenge thing where we were timed and so I scribbled the numbers as fast as I could, but they were still legible... and my teacher got mad at me, saying she was sick/tired of my careless writing!

I never got shouted at because they knew something which I didn't they treated me a lot better then what I would of got in most schools. A lot of teachers did say I was a dream to have as a pupil.

My kindergarten teacher wrote down in my psychological profile thing "Tammy cried the entire fall semester"

My 2nd grade teacher wrote "Odd combination of little girl and little old lady."

And I can't remember which teachers made these other remarks but I remember reading "Tammy is a daydreamer.", "Tammy doesn't work to her potential.", "Tammy's mother is too permissive with Tammy", "Tammy is a follower, not a leader.", "Tammy doesn't pay attention.", etc.

(Tammy is not my real name)

And just as a quick heads up--- my highschool destroys these personal records of the students 5 years after graduation and just keeps grade records. So you should try to get a copy of ALL your school records. They might not like releasing the psychological profiles (or whatever your school calls it), but you have a right to them.

Also, you can get the original pictures of you from kindergarten through 12th grade. Mine were little bitty pics, but there were a couple of pics there that I had never seen before.

I wish I could get ahold of my school records.

this pretty much sums me up...as does the label of "emotionally immature"

My first grade teacher called me a little idiot and other names like that several times...I was always getting swats or made to sit on the wall (a painful and humiliating punishment), being abruptly moved around to different reading groups and sent to the corner during most movie times.
My second grade teacher kept trying to defend me from the rest of the class.
third grade the first time, the teacher was nice to my face but told my parents i was a horrible student.
fourth grade the first time the teacher called me her "little porcelain doll" gave me all F's and sent me back to third grade (i was having nervous breakdown at the time)
third grade the second time, the teacher was annoyed with me, seated me at the back of the class and I was excluded from certain group activites.
Fourth grade the second time, the teacher was constantly confiscating my notebooks.
Fifth grade teacher said she was very proud of me because I scored at high school level and above on all these different tests..but i did horribly in class.
etc..etc..etc....
Throughout Jr. High and high school I was met with a mixture of annoyance and approval. Several teachers tried to take me under their wing...and I dissapointed my share of them...Oh yeah...my Speech/Drama teacher called me a "strange cookie" (this is what she said to other students about me apparently more than once)
I participated in academic decathalons, drama and speech fairs, choir competitions, etc..etc...etc..wrote for school newspaper and whatnot, all the while scraping by with mostly C's and D's..I made my choir teacher cry.

My fourth grade teacher asked my mom if she had written a report because he doubted a fourth grader could have written it. Little did he know, I was reading and writing well above average. It really was my work.

At the university level, the instructors said I was a good student and a good person, but lacked the confidence to be a teacher. I thank goodness that I didn't become a college teacher. I would have been a fish out of water in that environment. I couldn't with a straight face teach things I didn't believe in.

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Very interesting.

I don't have my school reports from the 1970s. However, I was bright at maths, and the science subjects. But there was bullying, and I could not control my temper very well. I was run through some tests, and was told I have a "different personality", don't think the counsellors and psychiatrists were aware of AS at the time. This was despite Dr. Aspergers discovery of AS in the 1940s, and not widely recognised as a "disorder" or a form of autism until the 1990s.

Mind you, I noticed a small number other pupils at my school have signs of AS, and noticed that 2 teachers were eccentric and I suspect to be Aspies!! The two teachers had PhD very clever but not very good teachers, they taught in their own way, and this Chemistry teacher never gave out homework, etc, and I was the only one of the few to pass annual school exams in Chemistry. He taught only 3 months. The other was a Physics teacher, eccentric in his own ways, lasted 1 year. They showed a few signs of AS, but not knowing their social life (or lack of it) - they were single - I wouldn't be too certain.

"So much potential", "If only you'd try a little" - Story of my life.
Most teachers have at some point mentioned something of this naure.
For a certain period of maybe about 2 years, I could not hear the word "potential" without clenching my fists, I'm really sick of it.

Other than that, I'm defiant, depressed, and arrogant, or so I've heard.

My most recent teacher in Swedish says that I don't do enough for her to even be legally allowed to grade me, but when I do something, she can hardly keep up with me.
In fact: One of my essays turned out to be completely futile and worthless, as it seemed to be written some other language altogether, even though she could not find a single direct error in it.

thats horible...i couldnt stand if someone would yell at me

Ah. The old school reports...

My PE teacher (who was an a***hole -- in fact it was / is rare to find a PE teacher who wasn't / isn't) accused me of not trying because I was bad at PE. Even though I was trying so hard!! ! So I ripped the report up in front of him and threw it in the bin.

Mostly I got good reports, academically speaking.

My Japanese teacher said that my handwriting was "meticulously neat and accurate". That's the only direct quote I can remember, because she said it like it was meant to be a bad thing. (??)

Can't remember much about what teachers said in my reports. (Mostly because it was years ago.) But I do know that I was the freaky kid who was always doing weird things. (The kid they would have meetings about!)

I don't like teachers much.

Once I heard from a girl from another group that one of our teachers had told them that he found me to be the only student of our school who read books not because I was forced to do it but because I liked learning something new and interesting.